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British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and ...

British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday (November 12, 2024) with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station. Ms.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder ...

Harvey’s win comes in the immediate wake of the terrible floods in Spain. The Booker press release describes Orbital as “a book about a wounded world” and cites its win in “a year of ...

Samantha Harvey, author of “Orbital,” took home the award Tuesday. The book focuses on a single day in the life of the astronauts on the ISS, where they discuss fears, dreams and the fragility ...

This year’s Booker Prize winner, Orbital by Samantha Harvey, which dramatises a day onboard the International Space Station (ISS), 250 miles above Earth, falls decidedly in the latter tradition. “The ...

On November 12th the Booker came home. Samantha Harvey was the only British author on the shortlist, and she won for her 136-page gem, “Orbital” (only one other winning novel has been shorter: ...

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London When Samantha Harvey started work on “Orbital,” a novel set aboard the International Space Station, she wrote 5,000 words then, suddenly, lost her nerve.

Samantha Harvey is the first woman to win the award since 2019 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.