Booker Prize: Quick Facts

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Nov. 9, 2026

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'The End of Everything’ by M. John Harrison wins the 2026 Booker Prize for fiction • Nov. 9, 2026, 7:25 PM ET (AP)

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Also Known As

Man Booker Prize • Booker McConnell Prize • Booker Prize for Fiction

Notable Honorees

Margaret Atwood • Arundhati Roy • Salman Rushdie • William Golding • Iris Murdoch • Roddy Doyle • Han Kang • John Banville • Michael Ondaatje • Hilary Mantel • John Berger • Ian McEwan • J.M. Coetzee • Penelope Fitzgerald • Kazuo Ishiguro • V.S. Naipaul • Yann Martel • J.G. Farrell • A.S. Byatt • Kiran Desai • Thomas Keneally • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • Graham Swift • Nadine Gordimer • George Saunders • Penelope Lively • Peter Carey • Anita Brookner • Kingsley Amis • David Storey • Anita Desai • Ben Okri • Paul Scott • Stanley Middleton • Keri Hulme

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Richard Flanagan, wearing a black tuxedo, smiles while standing at a podium in front of a Booker Prize sign during the Man Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony.

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