David Szalay

David Szalay was born in 1974 in Canada, grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. He has written six novels that have been translated into more than twenty languages, as well as several radio dramas for the BBC. His first novel, London and the South-East, received the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, while All That Man Is was awarded the Gordon Burn and Plimpton prizes and was shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize. Szalay was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and in 2010 was included in The Telegraph’s list of the twenty best British writers under forty. His novel SARKA won the 2025 Booker Prize, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence.