# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-szalay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:07:42.499Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/david-szalay"
name: "David Szalay"
slug: "david-szalay"
description: "David Szalay is a writer. His novels All That Man Is and Turbulence are noted for their unique narrative structure as collections of intertwined short stories. All That Man Is was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and won the Gordon Burn Prize that year. Szalay's sixth novel, Flesh, won the 2025 Booker Prize."
tagline: "Canadian-born Hungarian-British writer (born 1974)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1974-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump