Booker Prize 2024 | 15 Nov 2024

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.