Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” which won the Booker Prize last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a space station above Earth, orbiting the ...

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“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. The prize comes with a ...

The 2024 Booker Prize has been awarded to Samantha Harvey for her novel Orbital. The prize committee writes that "Harvey’s novel takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and ...

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 ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Samantha Harvey about her new book Orbital, which examines the fascinating mundane-ness of outer space from the perspective of an international space station. The ...

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 ...

LONDON – When Samantha Harvey started work on “Orbital,” a novel set aboard the International Space Station, she wrote 5,000 words then, suddenly, lost her nerve. “I thought, ‘Well, I have never been ...

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 ...