‘Orbital,’ which looks down on Earth in awe, wins the 2024 Booker Prize
Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.
British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction
British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.
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Samantha Harvey wins the Booker prize for “Orbital”
By Samantha Harvey. Grove Press; 224 pages; $24. Vintage; £14.99. T EN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth authors to Anglophone
‘I’m so not an astronaut!’ Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning space novel – and the anxiety that drove it
Samantha Harvey very nearly gave up on her novel Orbital, which last night won this year’s Booker prize. Set on the International Space Station (ISS) 250 miles from Earth, Orbital follows the day-to-day lives of four astronauts and two cosmonauts as they hurtle through the universe at 17,
British author says space inspired Booker Prize-winning novel
A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week won the prestigious Booker Prize.
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Bold' and 'scintillating' novel follows six astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station over 24 hours
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