New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- British novelist M John Harrison has won the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything, becoming the award's oldest winner at 81 with a dystopian satire about a society struggling to understand its own collapse.

Harrison received the £50,000 prize at Old Billingsgate in London on Monday, November 9. The trophy was presented by last year's winner, David Szalay, according to the Booker Prize's official announcement.

The result brings a new level of recognition to an author whose career spans six decades. It was Harrison's first Booker nomination and the first win for his publisher, Serpent's Tail.

A unanimous choice from six finalists

The judging panel, chaired by historian and broadcaster Mary Beard, chose ...