Queen Camilla hosted a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the 2025 Booker Prize.
The Palace posted a video of Queen Camilla on social media that read “Celebrating the Booker Prize 2025.”
The Queen hosted the reception for this year’s shortlisted authors, judges and supporters of the award. “Congratulations to 2025 winner David Szalay”.
David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his sixth work of fiction, Meatbecoming the first Hungarian-British author to win the prize.
Meat by David Szalay was named winner of the 2025 Booker Prize at a ceremony in London on Monday 10 November.
Szalay receives £50,000 and a trophy presented to him by last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey.
Meat was selected as the winning book by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle, the first Booker Prize winner to chair a Booker judging panel.
This year’s judging panel included Sarah Jessica Parker, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Kiley Reid and Chris Power.
They considered 153 books and were looking for the best work of full-length fiction written by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025.
The Booker Prize is the leading literary prize in the English-speaking world and has celebrated world-class talent for more than 55 years.
