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M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 9 Nov 2026, 22:00 UTC. The headline in use is “M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on…
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M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize
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