'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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