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. Harvey was ...
Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so ...
A slim science fiction novel that looks at our “precious and precarious” world through the eyes of six astronauts on the ...
LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Britain's Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel 'Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station which she wrote during ...
The Booker Prize is billed as “the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction”. It’s big business nowadays, promoted with internet events, talks, signings and a social ...
British writer Samantha Harvey has been awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her “beautifully expansive” novel about a day in the life of six astronauts on board the International Space Station ...
TEN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth authors to Anglophone authors of any nationality with a book published in Britain, teeth were gnashed and hands ...
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“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes ...
A British author inspired to write a novel about space by watching livestreams from the International Space Station during lockdown has won the Booker Prize. Samantha Harvey received the £50,000 ...
The author was longlisted in 2009 for her debut novel about dementia The Wilderness. This year, she bested Charlotte Wood, the first Australian to be shortlisted for the Booker since 2014 ...