Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize for "Orbital," First Space-Set Novel to Claim the Honor.

Awards

British author Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize award for her fiction novel "Orbital," which has become the first book set in space to win the prize.


      - The winner was announced by Chair of the 2024 judges, Edmund de Waal, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate in London, the United Kingdom (UK).

      - Samantha Harvey becomes the 1st woman to win the award since 2019. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the award in 2019.

      - Samantha Harvey was awarded with 50,000 pounds (USD 64,000) and a trophy, which was presented to her by Paul Lynch, winner of the Booker Prize 2023.

Main Points:-   (i) Orbital is the 2nd-shortest novel ever to win the Booker Prize.

      (ii) This science fiction novel, published by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Grove Atlantic (USA), is the second-shortest book to win the prize, with 136 pages and covering a 24-hour timeframe.

(iii) This year's shortlist included five women out of six shortlistees, the largest number of women represented in the prize's 55-year history.

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