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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.
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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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.
In the week after Prophet Song by Irish writer Paul Lynch was announced as last year’s winner, sales increased by 1500 per cent, and the book climbed to number three in the Sunday Times ...
Many female novelists have been honoured with damehood.
Historically, the winner of the Booker Prize had been required to be a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. It was announced on 18 September 2013 that future Booker Prize awards would consider authors from anywhere in the world, so long as their work was in English and published in the UK. [39]