David Szalay, author of Hungarian origin shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

David Szalay, a writer of Hungarian descent has been shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, with his novel All That Man Is, prae.hu reports. The shortlist was revealed on Tuesday in London.

David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974 to a Hungarian father and a Canadian mother, and he grew up in London. According to telegraph.co.uk, he now resides in Pécs, Hungary. All That Man Is is his fourth novel.

The Telegraph praised Szalay as an author who “not only perceives the banal, everyday world in an acute and photographic way but he can also translate it into high-definition prose. Szalay is in pursuit of the feel of a specific moment, whether that feel is lyrical or mundane. It is one of the many ironies of his work that it brings a sensory richness to the bleak and the drab. All That Man Is is a showcase for Szalay’s virtuosic range…”

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Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are – ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. As the men get older, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood. (unitedagents.co.uk)