London: British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for 2024. The award is for his ambitious and beautiful novel ‘Orbital’. Let us now tell you what this orbital novel is about, for which the author has won the Booker Prize for 2024. The work won a literary prize of US$64,000. Thus, it became the world’s first space-based novel to win such a huge amount.
Its entire story is based on space. The number of women writers nominated for the award this year is high. ‘Orbital’ is based on a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station, who watch 16 sunrises and sunsets on Earth as they orbit behind the continents. The novel was announced as the winner at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate in London on Tuesday evening. Harvey dedicated her award to everyone who “speaks for Earth,” saying, “I first thought why on Earth would anyone want to hear about space from a woman, imagine when there are people in space. How would they feel?
The novel has 136 pages
The novel is only 136 pages long, making it the second shortest book to win the award. The jury for the award includes award-winning British Indian musician Nitin Sawhney, novelist Sarah Collins, The Guardian newspaper’s fiction editor Justin Jordan and Chinese-American author and professor Yiyun Li. Harvey was awarded a prize money of US$64,000. He started writing this novel during the lockdown imposed during the Kovid-19 pandemic. Harvey, who has previously written four novels and a volume about insomnia, is the first British author to win the Booker Prize since 2020.
She is also the first woman to win the Booker Prize since 2019. The Booker Prize was established in 1969 and is awarded to novels originally published in English in Britain or Ireland. Last year Irish author Paul Lynch won the award. (AP)
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