136. The 2025 Booker Prize Winner: David Szalay

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Sun May 17 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre | Auckland, AU

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All Tickets are Mobile Ticket Only. Mobile Tickets are like Print-at-Home tickets but instead of having to print off the tickets yourself, you can just show the barcode on your mobile phone. It is the easiest way to access tickets to your events. For more information visit Ticketmaster.co.nz/mobileticket Child Policy: Children aged under 1 will be permitted free. Provided they do not occupy a seat. The 2025 Booker Prize winning Hungarian-British author David Szalay is in conversation with Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize Chair of judges, about his lauded book Flesh, and his reflections six months on from winning the life-changing prize. Doyle remarked "[w]e had never read anything quite like it" and described it as an "extraordinary, singular novel". The novel asks profound questions about what makes a life worth living - and what breaks it.

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