🔶 M. John Harrison wins the Booker Prize with the novel "The End of All Things"

This year’s Booker Prize was awarded to M. John Harrison for his novel titled "The End of All Things." Harrison is 81 years old and is the oldest recipient of this award.

The Booker is considered one of the most prestigious prizes in English-language literature.

The title of the oldest winner of this prize previously belonged to Margaret Atwood, who won it at the age of 79 in 2019 for the book "The Testaments."

Harrison’s utopian-dystopian novel depicts a not-too-distant future in which alien beings invade Britain.

At the award ceremony in London, when asked about the message he intends to convey through this story, Harrison said: "This is a dark, dark world, and it will remain a dark world, and it will be a weird world. But at the end maybe there will be some kind of feeling of release."

So far, Harrison has published more than ten novels.

"The End of All Things" was selected unanimously from among six finalists. Harrison will receive £50,000, and £2,500 will also be given to each of the other five selected authors.