Michael Harrison won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything

British writer Michael Harrison won the 2026 Booker Prize. This is reported on the website of the award.

“This book shows, and this award now shows, that it is possible to write a work that combines not two genres, but three or four,” Harrison said in a statement.

The size of the cash premium was 50 thousand pounds sterling ($ 67,000).

Harrison is 81. He became the oldest laureate in the history of the award. His novel “The End of Everything” became the first science fiction on the list of winners. The book takes place on the English Channel coast. The story takes place after a global catastrophe. There are mysterious alien creatures in the UK. The main character finds a mysterious artifact on the shore. Jury chair Mary Beard called the novel a look at contemporary politics through the lens of the future. Harrison beat five finalists, including Douglas Stewart, Marlon James and Elizabeth Strout.

The Booker Prize was established in 1969. The award is given for English-language novels. Publishers publish these books in the UK and Ireland. In different years, the winners were Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Arundhati Roy. In 2025, David Soloy received the award. He wrote the novel Flesh.

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