{"id":32907,"date":"2025-11-11T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32907"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:02:18","slug":"flesh-by-david-szalay-wins-2025-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32907","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flesh\u2019 by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: \u2018Flesh\u2019 by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">\u2018Flesh\u2019 by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">David Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel \u201cFlesh.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI think fiction can take risks. I think it\u2019s one of the things that it can do. It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks, which many other forms, narrative forms, can\u2019t quite do to the same extent.\u201d \u201cI think all six of the books in the short list really, you know, not \u2014 it\u2019s not saying this is the headline theme, but there is that theme of reaching out, wanting a connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">David Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel \u201cFlesh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n<p>November 11, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: \u2018Flesh\u2019 by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize transcript Back transcript \u2018Flesh\u2019 by David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize David Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel \u201cFlesh.\u201d \u201cI think fiction can take risks. I think it\u2019s one of the things that it can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6647,999,15542,1169,18907,1975],"class_list":{"0":"post-32907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-booker","9":"tag-david","10":"tag-flesh","11":"tag-prize","12":"tag-szalay","13":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}