London British author Samantha Harvey‘s science fiction novel ‘Orbital’ has won the 2024 Booker Prize. Samantha is the woman who will win the Booker Prize after 2019 and the British writer who will win the award after 2020. The prize money is 50000 pounds (approx. Rs. 53.78 lakhs). Orbital is the second shortest book in … Read more
The novel Orbital tells about the astronauts’ stay on the International Space Station, for which the English writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction this Tuesday night. The book tells about 24 hours on board the space station. In addition to the usual tasks and duties of the six astronauts, two men … Read more
LondonBritish writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with Orbitala short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station. Harvey received the prize worth 50,000 pounds ($64,000) for what he called a “space pastoral” about six astronauts orbiting the Earth, which he began writing during the confinements of the Covid-19 pandemic. … Read more