Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, called M. John Harrison "a genuinely original thinker, a genre-defying writer who takes ideas seriously." Yuki Sugiura/The Booker Prize Foundationhide caption
A satirical dystopian novel whose themes of “catastrophe and apocalypse” chime with our uneasy times won the Booker Prize on Monday, the first work of science fiction to take the prestigious literary award
Homefeaturesbooks British author M John Harrison wins Booker Prize for 'The End of Everything'Just 198 pages, 'The End of Everything' was also the shortest novel on this year's shortlist and won because judges felt it is a book that "leaves you with a twinge of optimism" about the world.Last Updated10 November 2026, 06:36 IST
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Ugandan fashion entrepreneur and designer Oscar Nyesiga, popularly known as Oscar Kampala, has earned continental recognition after securing a nomination for Designer of the Year at the 2026 EMY Africa Awards in Ghana.
Spanish writer Cristina Fernández Cubas has won the 2026 Cervantes Prize, becoming the seventh woman to receive the prestigious literary award. The €125,000 honor recognizes her contribution to contemporary short fiction and fantasy literature in Spanish.
CHENNAI Nirmala Lakshman, author, journalist and Director of The Hindu Group, has won the Sharjah Award for the Best International Book in the Best International Non-Fiction Book category for “The Tamils : A Portrait of a Community”. The award was presented by Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Book Authority. According…
The Catalan writer Cristina Fernández Cubas was on Tuesday named the winner of the Cervantes Prize 2026, the highest distinction in Spanish-language literature, worth 125,000 euros.