81 year old British author M John Harrison was named the winner of the 2026 Booker Prize for his dystopian satire ‘The End of Everything’ at a ceremony in London last night. Harrison becomes the oldest author to win the prestigious literary prize after a writing career spanning 60 years.
Just 198 pages, ‘The End of Everything’ was also the shortest novel on this year’s shortlist and won because judges felt it is a book that leaves you with a twinge of optimism about the world.
Fiction authors from the UK dominated the shortlist of the 2026 Booker. Elizabeth Strout for ‘The Things We Never Say’, ‘Black Bag’ by Luke Kennard and ‘May We Feed the King’ by Rebecca Perry were among the finalists.
