At the age of 81, British author M. John Harrison has won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel The End of Everything, sparked in part by the 2008 financial crisis and set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic Britain. Harrison is now the oldest winner in the history of this literary prize. Before him, the record…
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Harrison surpasses The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood as the oldest recipient of the prestigious literary award
One of the biggest days in the literary calendar arrives next week on 9 November, when the winner of what is one of the most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize, will be announced.
CoverEvery year, the Booker Prize offers a glimpse of what’s capturing the literary world’s attention. The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist takes readers from imagined futures to the complexities of family life, with novels that linger on questions of identity, memory and belonging (Reading, 1890 by artist Georges Croegaert. Photo: Heritage Art/Heritage Images
The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize, announced on Tuesday, includes 13 books covering a variety of genres, from thriller to dystopian science-fiction to love story. Two previous winners have again made the prestigious list – Douglas Stuart, who won shuggie bann in 2020, and Marlon James, who won the award in 2015 A Brief