{"id":4550,"date":"2025-10-24T13:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=4550"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:09:13","slug":"david-szalay","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/david-szalay\/","title":{"rendered":"David Szalay"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4550\" class=\"elementor elementor-4550 elementor-716\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c12f1af elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c12f1af\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-91f1b5a\" data-id=\"91f1b5a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9544798 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9544798\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a name=\"_Hlk212404234\"><\/a> <span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8220;Nobody captures the super-sadness of modern Europe as well as Szalay&#8221;, wrote <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>The Spectator<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"> in 2016 about <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>All That Man Is<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, a collection of nine interconnected stories by the startlingly original writer David Szalay. Born in Montreal in 1974 to a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father, Szalay grew up in Beirut, studied at Oxford University and now lives in Vienna. His 2018 short story collection <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Turbulence<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, which follows twelve different passengers on a string of flights around the world, was originally commissioned as a BBC Radio 4 short drama series and was praised for its structurally innovative exploration of the globalization of family and friendship in the 21<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><sup><span><span lang=\"en-US\">st<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"> century. Szalay\u2019s sixth novel, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Flesh<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, portrays the unconventional rags-to-riches story of Istv\u00e1n, a pliable, tight-lipped man who seems to process the world better with his body than his mind. When a traumatic teenage experience sends his life spiraling out of control, Istv\u00e1n, unlike most literary heroes, allows himself to be carried along by the currents of his time, charting a rocky trajectory from juvenile detention and a stint in the Iraq war to a life of luxury that ultimately threatens to undo him. In <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Flesh<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, Szalay uses brutally pared-back language to examine modern masculinity, allowing meaning to erupt between the spare, minimalist lines. The book has been enthusiastically received by the critics and has won the 2025 Booker Prize. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada-Hungary, 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":50,"template":"","team_category":[88,107],"class_list":["post-4550","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry","team_category-author","team_category-speakers-authors-archive-2026"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/4550\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}