The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers,

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  coming to you today from Charleston Literary Festival in South Carolina.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today has just won the 2025 Booker Prize.

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  Born in Montreal, raised between Beirut and London,

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  he studied English at Oxford before finally giving himself permission to become a writer.

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  A decision that took him across Europe and into the books that have shaped his remarkable career.

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  London and the Southeast, Innocent, Spring, All That Man Is, Turbulence and Now Flesh.

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  The novel that's just taken one of the most important global prizes for fiction.

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  David Sollo, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you very much.

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  It's great here in Charleston,

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  I mean last week we were both at the Booker Prize dinner and it was a sort of very very London on a cold rainy Monday night and here we are and it's a glorious weekend in South Carolina.

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  I know, it just makes the whole thing even more dreamlike.

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  It's weird, it's just weird.

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  I mean it's balmy, I've been walking around in a t-shirt all day.

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  You were born in Montreal,

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  you then moved to Beirut briefly and later London and I wonder

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  if you could just sort of take us through that journey in your own words.

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  Sure, yeah.

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