Samantha Harvey, British author.
London: British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for 2024. This award has been given for his “ambitious and beautiful” novel ‘Orbital’. Let us now tell you what this orbital novel is, for which the author has received the Booker Prize for 2024. This work has received a literary award of US$64,000. Thus, it has become the first novel based on space in the world to win such a huge amount.
Its entire story is based on space. This year, the number of women writers nominated for the award is higher. ‘Orbital’ is based on a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station, who watch 16 sunrises and sunsets on Earth as they orbit behind the continents. The novel was declared the winner at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate in the City of London on Tuesday evening. Harvey dedicated his award to each person who “speaks for Earth,” saying, “I first thought why on Earth would anyone want to hear about space from a woman, imagine when there are people in space. So how would they feel?
The novel is of 136 pages
The novel is just 136 pages long, making it the second smallest book to win the award. The jury for the award includes award-winning British Indian musician Nitin Sawhney, novelist Sarah Collins, fiction editor of The Guardian newspaper Justin Jordan and Chinese-American author and professor Yiyun Li. Harvey was given prize money of US$64,000. He started writing this novel during the lockdown imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Harvey, who has previously written four novels and a volume about insomnia, is the first British author to win the Booker Prize since 2020.
She is also the first woman to win the Booker Prize since 2019. The Booker Prize was established in 1969 and is awarded to novels originally published in English in Britain or Ireland. Last year, Irish writer Paul Lynch won the award. (AP)
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