Queen Camilla hosted a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the 2025 Booker Prize.
The Palace released a video of Queen Camilla on social media saying “celebrating the Booker Prize 2025.”
The Queen hosted the reception for this year’s nominated authors, judges and supporters of the award. “Congratulations to the 2025 winner, David Szalay.”
David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his sixth work of fiction, Meatand became the first Hungarian-British author to win the prize
Meat by David Szalay was named the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize at a ceremony in London on Monday 10 November.
Szalay will receive £50,000 and a trophy, which was 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 looked for the best work of longer fiction by authors of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.
The Booker Prize is the leading literary prize in the English-speaking world and has celebrated world-class talent for over 55 years.
