Newly minted Booker Prize 2026 winner, 81-year-old, M. John Harrison and I chatted on the TOI Bookmark* podcast about his novel, The End of Everything within hours of him having won the prize.

Here is the link on Spotify:

Today, on 12 Nov 2026, an account of the interview was carried in the print edition of The Times of India.

Coincidentally, I had spoken to M. John Harrison in September when he had been longlisted for the prize. The Spotify link:

The book is published by Serpent’s Tail and is distributed in India by Hachette India.

12 Nov 2026

*TOI Bookmark is a weekly podcast on literature and publishing. TOI is an acronym for the Times of India (TOI) which is the world’s largest newspaper and India’s No. 1 digital news platform with over 3 billion page views per month. The TOI website is one of the most visited news sites in the world with 200 million unique monthly visitors and about 1.6 billion monthly page views. TOI is the world’s largest English newspaper with a daily circulation of more than 4 million copies, across many editions, and is read daily by approximately 13.5 million readers. The podcasts are promoted across all TOI platforms. I have recorded more than 214+ sessions with Jnanpith, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shree awardees, International Booker Prize winners, Booker Prize winners, Women’s Prize for Fiction, Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize, Stella Prize, AutHer Awards, Erasmus Prize, BAFTA, Turing Prize, Magsaysay Prize etc. Sometimes the podcast interviews are carried across all editions of the print paper with a QR code embedded in it.

Some of the authors who have been interviewed are: M. John Harrison, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ & Lin King, David Szalay, Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhashti, Samantha Harvey, Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hoffman, Paul Murray, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Hisham Matar, Anita Desai, Amitava Kumar, Hari Kunzro, Venki Ramakishnan, Siddhartha Deb, Elaine Feeney, Manjula Padmanabhan, Edwin Frank, Jonathan Escoffery, Joya Chatterji, Arati Kumar-Rao, Paul Lynch, Dr Kathryn Mannix, Cat Bohannon, Sebastian Barry, Shabnam Minwalla, Paul Harding, Ayobami Adebayo, Pradeep Sebastian, G N Devy, Angela Saini, Manav Kaul, Amitav Ghosh, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Damodar Mauzo, Geetanjali Mishra, William Dalrymple, Sanjoy Roy, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Andrew Miller, Catherine Chidgey, Dr Rachel Clarke, Charlotte Wood, Megha Majumdar, Kiran Desai, Ken Follett, Philippe Sands, Victoria Bateman, Anuradha Roy, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Danny Rensch, Anne Beate Hovind, Lyse Doucet, Tayari Jones and Annie Ernaux.

It is available on Spotify.