Yahoo · 4d
Orbital by Samantha Harvey: the Booker prize-winner set to go 'stratospheric'
Finally a Booker prizewinner that we can all get behind," said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times. Samantha Harvey has won this year's coveted literary award with her novel, "Orbital". It's the first book set in space to scoop the prize, and Harvey is the ...
The Star · 1d
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. "It seems a slightly eccentric choice because I didn't know anything about space but I've always been interested in it," Harvey told AFP in an interview on Thursday.
CBC.ca · 4d
British author Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize for space novel Orbital
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. The £50,000 (approx. $88,911 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.
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