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Samantha Harvey has won this year's coveted literary award with her novel, "Orbital". It's the first book set in space to scoop the prize, and Harvey is the first female author to win the Booker ...

“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station.

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. "I am not what you would probably call a space nerd by any stretch," she told NPR in 2023.

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. "I am not what you would probably call a space nerd by any stretch," she told NPR in 2023.

Harvey's book is set to go "stratospheric" after bagging the award, said David Sanderson in The Times. "Orbital" was the biggest-selling book on the shortlist, with "promising sales figures" of ...

Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy and her book "Orbital" after winning the Booker Prize award 2024, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) ...

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space mission.

Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy and her book "Orbital" after winning the Booker Prize in London, England, on Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) ...