Canadian-born author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh, a dark story about a Hungarian man from a working-class background whose life slowly unravels after he reaches the top of society in London.

Mr. Szalay, 51, was born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father. The family moved to Beirut when Mr. Szalay was an infant and then left for London a year later when the Lebanese civil war broke out. He now lives in Vienna.

He received the £50,000 prize, about $92,400, at an award ceremony in London on Monday evening.