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Satire novel wins Booker
The 81-year-old British writer M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize for his satirical dystopian novel *The End of Everything* at a ceremony in London on Monday. The prize is worth £50,000, or about $67,000. The 198-page novel is set in Britain after a mysterious catastrophe causes society to collapse. It satirizes fears about artificial intelligence and technological expansion, as well as the fallout from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. The judges said the book portrays societies’ confusion and inability to understand crises, while Harrison said the 2008 global financial crisis inspired the idea.
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