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Booker Prize 2024
- 15 Nov 2024
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Recently, British author Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize 2024 for her novel Orbital.
- Orbital is the first space book to win the Booker Prize.
- It explores Earth through the experiences of six astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), witnessing 16 sunrises and sunsets daily.
- It is the second-shortest novel in Booker Prize history, with the shortest being Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (132 pages).
- Harvey is the first woman to win the Booker Prize since Margaret Atwood in 2019.
- The Booker Prize: Established in the UK in 1969.
- Awarded annually to the best sustained work of fiction.
- Initially awarded to writers from Commonwealth nations. Now open to writers worldwide, regardless of origin.
- Must be written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Read More: International Booker Prize 2024
