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‘Orbital,’ which looks down on Earth in awe, wins the 2024 Booker Prize Samantha Harvey was awarded the Booker Prize on Nov. 12, 2024, in London. (Alberto Pezzali / Associated Press) ...
The Booker, which comes with a cash prize of 50,000 pounds, or $64,000, is awarded each year to the best novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland.
British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and ...
Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral" Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station ...
Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space mission. Harvey ...
"Orbital," by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.
Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction for her novel Orbital, a sharp, lyrical meditation on the state of the Earth and humanity as viewed from space, described by the judges as ...
“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station.
The Booker, which comes with a £50,000 (US$63,700) cash prize, has launched careers and courted controversy since its creation in 1969. British novelist Samantha Harvey, author of the book Orbital, ...
“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station.
Orbital. By Samantha Harvey. Grove Press; 224 pages; $24. Vintage; £14.99. T EN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth authors to Anglophone authors of any ...
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize.What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against the urgency of the climate crisis.