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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. [1] [2]
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 ...
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 ...
Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 prize. Samantha Harvey becomes first woman since 2019 to win Booker Prize Skip to main content
The 2024 Booker Prize winner is here! The prestigious literary prize, awarded to a novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland, was given to Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
Harvey had previously been nominated for the Booker Prize with the longlisting of her 2009 debut novel The Wilderness. [18] At 136 pages, Orbital was the second-shortest novel to be awarded the Booker Prize (with the shortest being Penelope Fitzgerald 's 1979 winning work Offshore ). [ 18 ]
Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
This year’s Booker Prize ceremony is being held on November 12, and the winning author will receive £50,000 and a trophy. Last year’s winner was Irish author Paul Lynch and his Dystopian ...