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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.
The field consists of 144 players meeting various criteria; they include tournament winners on the PGA Tour since the previous Players Championship, recent winners of major championships, The Players and World Golf Championships, and leading players in the FedEx Cup standings from the current and preceding seasons.
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. ... The shortest winning novel in the history of the prize ...
FedEx Cup points for signature events were increased to 700 for the winner (from 550 and 500 in 2022–23). The prize pool for the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 (leading regular-season FedEx Cup point earners) was doubled to $40 million. The prize for winning the FedEx Cup was increased to $25 million (from $18 million).
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will be awarded £50,000 in prize money. See the full shortlist below. James by Percival Everett (Mantel)
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
Other recent Booker winners include Shehan Karunatilaka, Damon Galgut, Bernadine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood. The Booker Prize 2024 longlist in full Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (Jonathan Cape)
The Players Championship at one point offered the highest purse of any tournament in golf (from $12.5 million in 2019 up to $25 million in 2023). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The field usually includes the top 50 players in the world rankings , but, unlike the major championships , it is owned by the PGA Tour and not an official event on other tours.