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British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for novel Orbital

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Samantha Harvey has been awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital", which follows the lives of two men and four women aboard the International Space Station as they reflect on humanity and the planet over the course of 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets. The novel tracks astronauts from various countries, including Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain, and Italy.

  1. GB
    Samantha Harvey
    1. I thought, 'Well, I have never been to space. I could never go to space. There are humans who have been to space who write very lucidly about it. Who am I to do this?'
    2. I wanted to write about our human occupation of low earth orbit for the last quarter of a century -- not as sci-fi but as realism.
    3. I do think there's a problem for British prizes at the moment, where we simply don't have enough that are just for British writers. And that wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that literary fiction so much depends on prize lists for giving exposure to authors, for sales, and so on.
    4. Could I evoke the beauty of that vantage point with the care of a nature writer? Could I write about amazement? Could I pull off a sort of space pastoral? These were the challenges I set myself.
  2. GB
    Edmund De Waal
    Booker Prize Foundation
    1. With her language of lyricism and acuity Harvey makes our world strange and new for us.
    2. This is a book that repays slow reading.
    3. Everyone and no one is the subject, as six astronauts in the International Space Station circle the Earth observing the passages of weather across the fragility of borders and time zones.
    4. There was absolutely no question of box ticking or of agendas or of anything else. It was simply about the novel.

sources

  1. 1.Al Jazeera
  2. 2.The Times
  3. 3.France 24
  4. 4.CNN
  5. 5.Agence France-Presse
  6. 6.BBC
  7. 7.Sunday Times

perspectives

  1. 1.Literature

countries

  1. 1.AustraliaAU
  2. 2.CanadaCA
  3. 3.United KingdomGB
  4. 4.IrelandIE
  5. 5.ItalyIT
  6. 6.JapanJP
  7. 7.NetherlandsNL
  8. 8.Russian FederationRU
  9. 9.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Commonwealth

persons

  1. 1.Samantha HarveyGB
  2. 2.Edmund De WaalGB
  3. 3.Anne Michaels
  4. 4.Charlotte Wood
  5. 5.Rachel Kushner
  6. 6.Tina Jordan
  7. 7.Gaby Wood
  8. 8.Ian McEwan
  9. 9.James Joyce
  10. 10.Margaret Atwood
  11. 11.Paul Lynch
  12. 12.Percival Everett

technicals

  1. 1.Booker Prize
  2. 2.Orbital
  3. 3.International Space Station
  4. 4.Pulitzer Prize
  5. 5.Creation Lake
  6. 6.Safekeep
  7. 7.Commonwealth Games
  8. 8.Stone Yard Devotional
  9. 9.1984
  10. 10.Costa Book Awards
  11. 11.Front Row
  12. 12.Girl, Woman, Other
British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for novel Orbital