David Szalay

DAVID SZALAY was born in Montreal in 1974, and moved to the U.K. the following year. He went to Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC. He won the Betty Trask Prize for his first novel, London and the South-East (2008), along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recently named one of the Telegraph’s “Top 20 British Writers under 40,” a Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and he won the 2016 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Paris Review for an outstanding contribution to the magazine. His most recent novel, All That Man Is, was published in April 2016. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and won the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. The novel was selected as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, Telegraph, New Statesman, TLS, Financial Times, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, NPR, and BBC Culture, among others. His book of stories, Turbulence, was published in December 2018. In October 2019, David was awarded both the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize and the Reader’s Choice Award. These days, David lives in Budapest.