M John Harrison wins 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything
Culture · First reported 9 Nov, 21:53 · Updated 22:04
M John Harrison, 81, has won the 2026 Booker Prize for his dystopian novel The End of Everything, becoming the award’s oldest winner. The book was chosen from 163 entries; reports highlight both its unusual approach to genre and its unsettling portrait of a world in crisis.
- Harrison won the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything and, at 81, became the award’s oldest winner.
- The novel was selected from 163 entries. It follows characters living amid the collapse of society after an invasion, with the setting described in one report as England’s south and in the other as the Kent coast.
- The judges chose the book unanimously. Harrison has said he wanted to move beyond genre labels, while the judging chair described the novel as connecting contemporary politics with a future setting.
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- Winner
- M John Harrison
- Winning novel
- The End of Everything
- Prize
- £50,000; ABC reports this as $95,000
- Age
- 81; oldest winner of the Booker Prize
- Entries considered
- 163
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