British-Hungarian writer David Szalay on Monday won the Booker Prize, the high-profile British literary award, for his novel Flesh, the organisers announced at a ceremony in London. Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including favourites Andrew Miller and Kiran Desai, to take the coveted literary award, which brings a £50,000 (US$66,000) payday and a big boost to the winner’s sales and profile. He was chosen from 153 submitted novels by a judging panel that included Irish writer Roddy Doyle...