‘Orbital,’ which looks down on Earth in awe, wins the 2024 Booker Prize
Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.
The Booker Prize Is Tuesday. Which of These 6 Novels Should Win?
Percival Everett’s “James” is the favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” or Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” could take the prize instead.
British Author Says Space Inspired Booker Prize-winning Novel
A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week won the prestigious Booker Prize.
British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for fiction with space-station novel 'Orbital'
British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital," which focuses on six astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
When it comes to the Booker, winning isn’t the only prize
Sadly for Charlotte Wood, who was hoping to become the first Australian woman author to win the coveted and influential prize for fiction written in English, the roll of the dice in this year’s Booker fell in favour of English novelist Samantha Harvey.
British author Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize for space novel Orbital
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. The £50,000 (approx. $88,911 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.
2024 Booker Prize: Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ is the first winning novel to be set in space
Samantha Harvey was one of five women on the shortlist and is the first woman to win since 2019. Her novel Orbital has turned out to be the biggest-selling book on the shortlist in the UK, and has sold more copies than the past three Booker Prize-winners combined had sold up to the eve of their success.
Booker winner Samantha Harvey: ‘Orbital’ is ‘more about Earth than about space’
The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of its fragility
Samantha Harvey wins the Booker prize for “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
Orbital by Samantha Harvey: the Booker prize-winner set to go 'stratospheric'
Bold' and 'scintillating' novel follows six astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station over 24 hours
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British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction
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British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital
with her book being the biggest-selling title on the shortlist in the UK. Orbital has sold more copies than the past three ...