Before Tuesday night, the author Samantha Harvey had got used to thinking of herself as a bit of an underdog. “It’s not out of self-pity, but I definitely saw myself as being on the periphery,” she ...

LONDON (AP) — British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station. Harvey was awarded the 50,000 ...

The winner of this year's Booker Prize is a novel called "Orbital." Samantha Harvey joins a long tradition of authors whose books take place in a single day, only in this day there are 16 sunrises and ...

TEN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth authors to Anglophone authors of any nationality with a book published in Britain, teeth were gnashed and hands wrung.

The novel "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize. That's the U.K.'s most prestigious literary award. The book is about a single day in the life of six astronauts on board a space ...

Nonfiction is for boring people. Romance is for girls. And literary fiction? It’s for snobs. At least that’s what a lot of people seem to think. I, on the other hand, like to think of it as literature ...

British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital," which focuses on six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Harvey describes the novel as a "space pastoral ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...