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The Booker Prize Gets Its First ‘Bona Fide’ Science Fiction Winner
M John Harrison becomes the oldest-ever Booker Prize winner at 81, and the prize's first bona fide science fiction laureate.
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M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize
M. John Harrison, an 81-year-old British science fiction author, has won the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything, becoming the first science fiction writer and oldest winner in the award's history.