News: The Booker Prize 2025 was announced in London on November 10, 2025 (early November 11 IST).
About Booker Prize 2025
- The Booker Prize 2025, one of the most prestigious awards in English-language fiction.
- Awarded by: The Booker Prize Foundation
- First award: The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969 to promote reading and literary excellence.
- How award is decided: Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
- Award: The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors.
- Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership and can expect a dramatic increase in book sales.
- Notable Awardees
- The inaugural winner was P. H. Newby for Something to Answer For.
- The first woman to win the prize was Bernice Rubens in 1970 for The Elected Member.
- Indian and South Asian Winners: Several Indian and Indian-origin authors have received the Booker Prize, including:
- V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State, 1971)
- Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, 1981)
- Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, 1997)
- Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006)
- Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008)
About the Booker Prize 2025 Winner
- The Booker Prize 2025 was awarded to David Szalay for his novel Flesh.
- The book tells the story of István, a reserved Hungarian man navigating love, displacement, and identity across decades.
