Years later, that decision has paid off. On Tuesday, “Orbital” won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award. Edmund de Waal, an artist and the chair of this year’s panel of judges ...
Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her novel Orbital, has created a new genre: nature writing about space. “I see it as a kind of space pastoral ...
She beat five other finalists from Canada, the U.S., Australia and the Netherlands, chosen from among 156 novels submitted by ...
"Orbital". It's the first book set in space to scoop the prize, and Harvey is the first female author to win the Booker since Bernardine Evaristo in 2019. "It's bold, it's scintillating" and ...
Her Booker Prize-winning novel follows six astronauts on board a space station, observing them as they observe their home ...
Years later, that decision has paid off. On Tuesday, “Orbital” won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award. Edmund de Waal, an artist and the chair of this year’s panel of judges ...
“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 prize comes ...
Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her poignant novel, Orbital. In a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London on ...
It was last won by a British author when Glasgow-born Douglas Stuart was named the 2020 Booker Prize winner for Shuggie Bain. “Orbital wins the prize in a year of geopolitical crisis, likely to ...
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 is the first woman to win the Prize since 2019, with her book being the biggest-selling title on the shortlist in the UK. Orbital has sold more copies than the past three Booker Prize ...
For the first time in the Booker Prize's history, the shortlist included ... Samantha Harvey's Orbital follows a 24-hour period in the lives of six astronauts on the International Space Station.