David Szalay
David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal , Canada ) is a British writer.
Life
David Szalay's mother is Canadian, his father is Hungarian and he has two siblings. Szalay grew up in London and studied literature at Oxford University . Between 1996 and 2003 he worked as an advertising salesman in the London financial industry. From 2009 he lived repeatedly in Budapest , including from 2014 for four years.
In 2009, his novel London and the South-East received the Betty Trask Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize . All That Man Is is his fourth novel. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 .
Works (selection)
- London and the Southeast . London: Vintage Books, 2008
- The Innocent . London: Vintage, 2009
- Jump . London: Jonathan Cape, 2011
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All That Man Is . London: Jonathan Cape, 2016
- What a man is . Novel. Translation of Henning Ahrens. Munich: Hanser, 2018
- Turbulence . Short stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 2018
literature
- Lorin Stein: Writing All That Man Is . In: Paris Review , 217, (2016): p. 171
Web links
- Literature by and about David Szalay in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Alison Flood: David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize , in: The Guardian , October 7, 2016
- David Szalay , at the British Council
- David Szalay , at united agents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Liu: Multiple voices, many meanings , Interview, in: Financial Times, January 5, 2019, p. L & A11
- ^ David Szalay: Pig-killing day . Short story, in: Financial Times , December 31, 2016. There is a short biography.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szalay, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Canada |