David Szalay

David Szalay (Montréal, 1974) is an English writer.

He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.^[1] He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he wrote two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011). He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40^[2] and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.^[3]

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