British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

LONDON —  British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of the Earth. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound ($64,000) prize for what she has called a “space pastoral” about six orbiting astronauts, which … Read more

UK writer Samantha Harvey’s Orbital wins Booker Prize for fiction

UK writer Samantha Harvey’s Orbital wins Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station. Harvey was awarded the £50,000 (US$64,000) prize for what she has called a “space pastoral” about six astronauts circling the Earth, which she began writing during Covid-19 lockdowns. The confined characters … Read more