2025 Booker Prize

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The 2025 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The longlist of 13 titles was announced on 29 July 2025. The shortlist of six finalists was announced on 23 September 2025. Regarding the shortlisted works, the chair of the judging panel, Roddy Doyle, stated that all six novels shared two things in common: they were unique in that they could only have been written by their respective authors and the authors who did write them displayed a mastery of the English language in the narrative. Doyle further stated that all of the works were "brillianty human", displaying the characters and their relationships to others as the centrepiece of the works. On 10 November 2025, at a ceremony in the Old Billingsgate in London, the prize was awarded to Flesh by David Szalay. Roddy Doyle stated: “The book we kept coming back to, the one that stood out from the...

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