India, Nov. 10 -- British author M John Harrison won the 2026 Booker Prize on Monday (November 09) night for "The End of Everything", a dystopian satire that the judges called a book that leaves you with "a twinge of optimism" about the world.

At 81, Harrison becomes the oldest winner of the prize, after a writing career spanning 60 years. At 198 pages, his novel was also the shortest on this year's shortlist. He was announced as the winner beating 5 other shortlisted candidates in London.

"I feel like a proper writer at last, totally lacking in confidence," Harrison said. "Prizes like this one, not that there are any prizes quite like the Booker, are so important in a landscape of industrialised fiction."

The judging panel, chaired by...