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British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

Harvey becomes the first woman to win the prize since Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the award in 2019

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2024

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2024

Samantha Harvey: A Booker 2024 winner who wants to spend her money on sculpting

She does not have a mobile phone and spends money on liquorice

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2024

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Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize

The British author’s novel about astronauts on the International Space Station was chosen unanimously as the winner, says judging chair Edmund de Waal

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2024

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2024

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2024

Booker prize 2024: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 12.

The Conversation · Nov 6, 2024

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Booker Prize 2024: Women dominate shortlist as all six authors tackle ‘fault lines of our times’

Shortlist for the prestigious literary prize features the largest number of women it its 55-year history

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2024

Each of the six Booker novels does something unique

As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist

The six finalists include five books by women – the highest number of female writers shortlisted in the prize’s 55-year history

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

Women dominate this year's Booker Prize shortlist ahead of £50,000 winner being announced

It is a record breaking year for women writers

Evening Standard · Sep 16, 2024

Three British authors nominated for the Booker Prize longlist

This year’s prize features three debut novelists and six previously nominated writers

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2024

This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

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The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2024

Booker Prize announces 13 books on ‘glorious’ longlist of ‘timeless and timely fiction’

This year’s longlist spotlights stories about belonging and displacement, featuring literary heavyweights such as Richard Powers and Percival Everett alongside a clutch of debut novelists

Marie Claire · Dec 13, 2023

Best books of 2023: The Marie Claire reading list of the must-reads and page-turners

Kindles at the ready, Readers – our round-up of new releases and recommended favourites for 2023 is designed to give you a TBR list to treasure throughout the year

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023

Orbital by Samantha Harvey – an extraordinary tale of our place in the cosmos

Over the course of a day, six astronauts reflect on their relationship with Earth in Harvey’s profound and lyrical fifth novel

The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2023

Orbital by Samantha Harvey review – the astronaut’s view

Six people make an ecstatic voyage around Earth in this finely crafted meditation on hope, beauty, the ordinary and the spectacular

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023

Samantha Harvey: ‘I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral’

The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith

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