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“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 ...
"Orbital" is enjoying some popular as well as critical success. The prize website notes it has sold more copies than the last three Booker Prize winners combined before their wins. Harvey ...
The novel "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize. That's the U.K.'s most prestigious literary award. The book is about a single day in the life of six astronauts on board a space ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song wins the 2023 Booker Prize – but the judges picked ... The Booker press release describes Orbital as “a book about a wounded world” and cites its win in ...
Joshua Ferris, New York Times A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space.
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.
“Orbital” is enjoying some popular as well as critical success. The prize website notes it has sold more copies than the last three Booker Prize winners combined before their wins. Lili Anolik ...
TEN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth ... author on the shortlist, and she won for her 136-page gem, “Orbital” (only one other winning novel has ...
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 ...