India, Nov. 11 -- British author M John Harrison has become the oldest winner of the Booker Prize at 81, bagging the 2026 award for his post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything. Harrison, the first writer from the established science fiction community to win the prestigious literary honour, received the £50,000 (approximately Rs.62 lakh) prize after a unanimous decision by the jury chaired by historian Mary Beard. Set on England's Kent coast, the 198-page novel follows a man and his elderly aunt struggling to survive in a world transformed by a mysterious disaster. Calling it "the politics of now seen through the lens of the future", Beard said the book "turns you upside down, raises a wry smile" and leaves readers with optimism. Harrison, whose career spans six decades, beat Canadian author Margaret Atwood, who was 79 when she jointly won the prize in 2019. Reacting to his win, he said "the era of genres as fences and boxes, pigeonholes, is over." HTC...