The British writer John Harrison won this year's Man Booker Prize for the novel "The End of All Things".
British author M. John Harrison has won the 2026 Booker Prize for his novel "The End of Everything," according to the prize's website.
As The Guardian notes, the 81-year-old Harrison became the oldest award winner in the award's history. It has been published for six decades.
The book takes place in the near future on the coast of the English county of Kent. Years after a mysterious disaster, the main characters try to survive in a neighborhood of giant creatures that can change their appearance.
The chair of the jury, Mary Bird, said the decision was unanimous and called the book "the politics of today, seen through the lens of the future".
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