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.
“Orbital” by Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize
The prize recognizes the best novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland, and comes with a cash prize of 50,000 pounds, or $64,000 Orbital by Samantha Harvey has received the 2024 Booker Prize.
‘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.
British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize
Samantha Harvey won the prestigious award for a wonder-filled novel, set aboard the International Space Station, that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth.
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. "It seems a slightly eccentric choice because I didn't know anything about space but I've always been interested in it," Harvey told AFP in an interview on Thursday.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey: the Booker prize-winner set to go 'stratospheric'
Finally a Booker prizewinner that we can all get behind," said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times. Samantha Harvey has won this year's coveted literary award with her novel, "Orbital". It's the first book set in space to scoop the prize, and Harvey is the ...
Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey: ‘It can be hard to write from a white British perspective’
Before Tuesday night, the author Samantha Harvey had got used to thinking of herself as a bit of an underdog. “It’s not out of self-pity, but I definitely saw myself as being on the periphery,” she says.
British writer Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story 'Orbital'
Britain's Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel 'Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station which she wrote during COVID-19 lockdowns.
British Author Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize For Novel ‘Orbital’
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her latest novel Orbital. The novel was announced as the winner at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate Market in London on Tuesday. Harvey’s book is the first story set in space to win the prestigious prize.
The 2024 Booker Prize is Awarded to Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Harvey is the first British author to win the prize since Bernardino Evaristo was a co-winner with Margaret Atwood in 2019.
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
Finalists for 2024 Booker Prize
Percival Everett arrives at the Booker Prize award dinner Tuesday in London. Bookies favored the American author to win with ...
‘Orbital,’ by Samantha Harvey, wins the Booker Prize
“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts ...