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UK author M John Harrison’s End of Everything wins Booker Prize
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The book uses dark humour and elusive narratives to cast a futuristic lens on modern politics post-calamity.
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Al Jazeera emphasises “UK author M John Harrison’s End of Everything wins Booker Prize”; BBC News leads with “'Baffling but brilliant' post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything wins Booker Prize”.
- Al JazeeraUK author M John Harrison’s End of Everything wins Booker Prize ↗
- BBC News'Baffling but brilliant' post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything wins Booker Prize ↗
- The New York TimesM. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ Wins Booker Prize ↗
- The New York TimesBook Review: ‘The End of Everything,’ by M. John Harrison ↗
- EuronewsM John Harrison becomes oldest ever winner of the Booker prize for his satirical novel 'The End of Everything' ↗
- France 24UK writer M. John Harrison wins Booker Prize for AI-tinged apocalyptic novel ↗
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The book uses dark humour and elusive narratives to cast a futuristic lens on modern politics post-calamity.
4 sources at this update - Headline updated
Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.
1 source at this update - Headline updated
The judges of the prestigious English literary prize praised the novel for it's "extraordinary expert writing and huge ambition" - Harrison is the oldest ever recipient of the prize that is famed for kickstarting careers and says he feels like a proper writer at last.
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M. John Harrison’s dystopian tale “The End of Everything” beat out higher profile books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart.
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- The New York TimesM. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ Wins Booker Prize ↗
- The New York TimesBook Review: ‘The End of Everything,’ by M. John Harrison ↗