'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize
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'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize

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'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize toggle caption Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. Previous winners include Margaret Atwood, who won twice for her novels The Testaments and The Blind Assassin, and Paul Lynch, who won the 2023 Booker Prize for his book Prophet Song. Sponsor Message Grove Press Orbital beat five other finalists on the Booker shortlist: Held by Anne Michaels, Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner, The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood and James by Percival Everett. In 2023, Harvey told NPR's Ari Shapiro that watching Earth orbits via videos from the ISS helped inspire the book: "I was so overwhelmed by the extraordinary beauty and strangeness of our planet," she said.

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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s Orbital shows only a true talent can deliver a great short book
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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s Orbital shows only a true talent can deliver a great short book

The Independent  

When Orbital, a tale of some 136 pages, by Samantha Harvey, the 2024 Booker Prize winner, landed on my desk, my first thought was for an old friend, an acclaimed English writer, now in the twilight of his career. How can you claim to be the premier English fiction prize if you exclude new writing from the most dynamic expression …

Booker Prize 2024: British Writer Samantha Harvey Wins For Space Novel ‘Orbital’
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Booker Prize 2024: British Writer Samantha Harvey Wins For Space Novel ‘Orbital’

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 13, 2024 19:58 IST - 4 MINS READ British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on November 12 with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. ‘Hopeful, timely, and timeless’ Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, …

UK writer Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker with space novel
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UK writer Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker with space novel

Raw Story  

British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her short novel following six astronauts as they contemplate Earth from the International Space Station. "I was not expecting that," Harvey said upon learning of her win, the first by a woman since Atwood was recognised in 2019 for "The Testaments" alongside Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other". …

The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner
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The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner

The Independent  

The Booker Prize is billed as “the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction”. What is hard to believe, though, is that the Booker judges would have risked the fallout from trumpeting a shortlist dominated by “the highest number of women in the prize’s 55-year history” and, being fully aware that the prize has gone only six …

British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital
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British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It was my main reference point,” she said in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s …

British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction
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British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Deccan Chronicle  

London: 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. De Waal praised the crystalline writing and capaciousness of Harvey's succinct novel at 136 pages in its U.K. paperback edition, one of the shortest-ever Booker winners. The other finalists were American writer Rachel Kushner's spy …

English author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize 2024 for her novel set in space, Orbital
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English author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize 2024 for her novel set in space, Orbital

ABC  

English author Samantha Harvey has won the prestigious Booker Prize, worth 50,000 British pounds, for her novel, Orbital, about a team of six astronauts on board the International Space Station. The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Held by Anne Michaels The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone …

‘Orbital,’ which looks down on Earth in awe, wins the 2024 Booker Prize
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‘Orbital,’ which looks down on Earth in awe, wins the 2024 Booker Prize

LA Times  

A slim science fiction novel that looks at our “precious and precarious” world through the eyes of six astronauts on the International Space Station has won the 2024 Booker Prize. “Compact yet beautifully expansive, Orbital invites us to observe the Earth’s splendour, whilst reflecting on the individual and collective value of every human life,” the Booker Prize judges wrote. In …

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space novel Orbital
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British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space novel Orbital

Al Jazeera  

Judges say award recognises the ‘beauty and ambition’ of the 136-page novel set on board the International Space Station. British writer Samantha Harvey has been awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her “beautifully expansive” novel about a day in the life of six astronauts on board the International Space Station. “Everyone and no one is the subject, as six astronauts …

Samantha Harvey becomes first woman to win the Booker Prize in five years with 'Orbital' as she joins hosts of celebs at 2024 awards ceremony
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Samantha Harvey becomes first woman to win the Booker Prize in five years with 'Orbital' as she joins hosts of celebs at 2024 awards ceremony

Daily Mail  

British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy after winning the Booker Prize award Samantha Harvey reacts after winning the Booker Prize award at Old Billingsgate in the City of London Samantha Harvey's book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner …

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction
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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Associated Press  

LONDON — 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 fragility of Earth. Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, called “Orbital” a “miraculous novel” that “makes our world strange and new for us.” …

Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins annual literature award
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Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins annual literature award

CNN  

London AP — 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 fragility of Earth. Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, called “Orbital” a “miraculous novel” that “makes our world strange and new for …

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