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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 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 ...
November 13, 2024 at 4:06 AM Samantha Harvey is the first woman to win the award since 2019 [EPA] British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital, the ...
Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize — Longlisted 2018 The Western Wind: HWA Crown Award Gold Crown Longlisted [28] 2019 Staunch Book Prize — Won [29] Walter Scott Prize — Shortlisted [30] 2020 International Dublin Literary Award — Longlisted [31] 2024 Orbital: Booker Prize — Won [22] Hawthornden Prize — Won [32] [33] The InWords ...
The winner of this year’s Booker Prize was “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey, a literary science fiction novel that tells the stories of six astronauts circling the Earth in 24 hours.
Many female novelists have been honoured with damehood.
A Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992 called the Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, also known as the Russian Booker Prize. In 2007, Man Group plc established the Man Asian Literary Prize , an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published ...
A selection of 13 “timely and timeless” books that “navigate what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return” have been longlisted for the 2024 Booker prize.. Two British authors ...