Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize for "Orbital," First Space-Set Novel to Claim the Honor. Awards | Dated: 19 Nov 2024 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. 🎯 Key Highlights: - 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. 💡 Other Important Facts: (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. 📚 Test Your Knowledge: Who Recently won the 2024 Booker Prize for the novel "Orbital"? Correct Answer: Samantha Harvey 🚀 Quick Recap: