British author Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize for space novel Orbital
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. The £50,000 (approx. $88,911 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.