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Samantha Harvey (born 1975) is an English novelist. She won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which drew on conventions from multiple genres and fields, including literary fiction , science fiction , and philosophy .
British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 ...
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital, the first book set in space to win the prize. Orbital contemplates the world from a different viewpoint ...
Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her poignant novel, Orbital. In a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday night (12 November), the writer was presented the award by last ...
Orbital is a 2023 novel by English writer Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, [3] [4] literary fiction, and philosophical drama, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in the US. It follows six fictional astronauts over 24 hours on an orbiting space station.
The other finalists were American writer Rachel Kushner’s spy story “Creation Lake”; Canadian Anne Michaels’ poetic novel “Held”; Charlotte Wood’s Australian saga “Stone Yard Devotional”; and “The Safekeep” by Yael van der Wouden, the first Dutch author to be shortlisted for the Booker. Harvey is the first female Booker ...
The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel Orbital, was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London. [1] [2]
Samantha Harvey was awarded the Booker Prize on Nov. 12, 2024, in London. (Alberto Pezzali / Associated Press) A slim science fiction novel that looks at our “precious and precarious” world ...