East Europe and literary prizes: where David Szalay and László Krasznahorkai meet
Hungarian-British writer David Szalay’s Flesh has won the Booker Prize for 2025, further strengthening a spate of award-winning fiction preserving the spectre of post-war/ post-socialist Europe in the public imagination, in just the decade since Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature. Szalay has a Hungarian father and, after time in the U.K. and Belgium, moved…
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