LONDON — British author M. John Harrison has won the 2026 Booker Prize at the age of 81, becoming the oldest writer ever to receive the prestigious literary award.
Harrison won the £50,000 prize for his 13th novel, The End of Everything, a dystopian satire set in a post-apocalyptic version of England. The novel explores a society struggling to survive after a mysterious catastrophe and the arrival of strange, shape-shifting entities known as the iGhetti.
The judges, chaired by historian and broadcaster Mary Beard, unanimously selected the novel from a shortlist of six books. Beard described it as a work that examines contemporary politics through the lens of the future, combining satire with an unexpected sense of optimism.
Harrison's victory marks his first Booker Prize nomination and win. His writing career spans six decades, during which he has published 13 novels and several collections of short stories.
He breaks the previous age record held by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, who was 79 when she jointly won the prize in 2019 for The Testaments.
The award was presented at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London on November 9. The win also marks the first Booker Prize victory for independent publisher Serpent's Tail.
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