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David Szalay

David Szalay was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. He is the author of the novels London and the South-East, The Innocent and Spring. He lives in Budapest.

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Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Flesh

David Szalay

‘She kneels on the floor and takes it in her mouth again. He’s looking at the top of her head, at the roots of her hair where the blonde, he now sees, is slightly mixed with grey.’

Fiction by David Szalay.

Fiction | Issue 133 padlock
Fiction | Issue 133 padlock

The Middle Ages: Approaching the Question of a Terminal Date

David Szalay

‘What is left? What is he to wrap himself in, now that everything has floated off into space?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 133
Essays & Memoir | Issue 133

Playing the Odds

David Szalay

‘What, I wonder now, must the texture of my life have been like then, that winning those sort of sums failed to leave even the slightest mark on my memory?’

In Conversation | Issue 133
In Conversation | Issue 133

David Szalay | Podcast

David Szalay & Ted Hodgkinson

David Szalay on how spending time in Hungary makes it easier to write about London, trying to live off betting on horses and how memory informs his work.

Fiction | Issue 123
Fiction | Issue 123

Europa

David Szalay

‘What she was like ‘as a person’ he has no idea.’

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