M John Harrison becomes oldest Booker Prize winner with dystopian novel The End Of Everything

With just 198 pages, his novel was the shortest book among the contenders

M John Harrison, 81, has won the Booker Prize 2026 for The End of Everything

M John Harrison has become the oldest winner of the Booker Prize aged 81.

He has received the accolade for his dystopian novel, The End Of Everything, which is set on the near-future Kent coast and navigates the mysterious invasion of shapeshifting entities amid a societal collapse.