November 13, 2024 1:45 PM

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story ‘Orbital’

Britain's Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel 'Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station which she wrote during COVID-19 lockdowns. The novel, Harvey's fifth, was the top selling book on the shortlist of six finalists and has sold more copies than the past three Booker Prize winners combined, as readers lapped up her depiction of earth's beauty as seen from space. Judges of the prize, now in its 55th year, praised her writing for the "inten...