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 Front Row programme. “I’ve never been in space, I could never go to space, and there are humans who’ve been to space who write very lucidly about it, so who am I to do this?” she said. open image in gallery Orbital follows six astronauts over a day on the International Space Station “I had a crisis of confidence and felt I was trespassing. open image in gallery Queen Camilla talks with Samantha Harvey “I don’t think fiction has a practical impact.

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Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize
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Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize

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. As the Prize opens for submissions from publishers on Tuesday, the panel will also feature …

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

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 writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction
1 month, 4 weeks ago

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 …

The Hindu On Books newsletter: Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’, Aditya Iyer’s ‘Gully Gully’ and more
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The Hindu On Books newsletter: Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’, Aditya Iyer’s ‘Gully Gully’ and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share.” In her review, Nandini Bhatia writes that Harvey offers a unique perspective in her novel, which concludes with a panoramic view of the “beautiful velvety poverty of man on earth that tips into the void”. …

English author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize 2024 for her novel set in space, Orbital
1 month, 4 weeks ago

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
1 month, 4 weeks ago

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
1 month, 4 weeks ago

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.” …

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

NPR  

'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. …

Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins annual literature award
1 month, 4 weeks ago

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 …

Booker Prize shortlist 2024: Book experts on the surprises, snubs and likely winner of the prestigious $98,000 literary award
2 months ago

Booker Prize shortlist 2024: Book experts on the surprises, snubs and likely winner of the prestigious $98,000 literary award

ABC  

The Booker Prize — described by some as the Olympic Games of literature — is one of the world's most prestigious writing prizes. Booker Prize 2024 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 Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood For the first …

Booker Prize 2024 winner | Review of ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey: beyond the blue orb
2 months ago

Booker Prize 2024 winner | Review of ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey: beyond the blue orb

The Hindu  

When one thinks of space, it is hard not to be enamoured by its endless vastness. English novelist Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning Orbital, set in raw space that is “a panther, feral and primal”, reclaims the lesser-known side of this orbital romance, by taking out the fantasy from the genre. Harvey writes of the ins and outs of an otherwise …

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