The Booker Prize for literature of the year was won by the British writer M. 81-year-old John Harrison for the post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything, thus becoming the oldest award winner in the award's history.
The End of Everything is a destabilizing satirical dystopian novel centered around a man paddling on the beach and his gun-wielding aunt. Together, they try to survive on the Kent coast in the near future.
Harrison's writing career has spanned 60 years.