- British writer Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, written during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
- The novel explores life aboard the International Space Station, with outstanding ‘intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world’.
- Orbital is Harvey’s fifth novel and focuses on a single day aboard the International Space Station.
- The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards, celebrating exceptional works of fiction worldwide established in 1969.
- It is to recognize outstanding fiction, often showcasing innovative storytelling and literary excellence.
- Originally for Commonwealth countries, Ireland, and Zimbabwe; expanded in 2014 to include any English-language novel published in the UK or Ireland.
- Man Booker International Prize: Introduced in 2005, awarded biennially until 2015, then annually from 2016. Celebrates the best works of fiction translated into English, shared equally between the author and translator.
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