Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital' Triumphs at 2024 Booker Prize
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Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel "Orbital," which explores the experiences of six astronauts during a single day of their nine-month mission orbiting Earth. The Booker Prize is a prestigious award for English fiction published in the UK and Ireland. "Orbital" was inspired by Harvey's fascination with the beauty of Earth as seen from space and has also won the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for other notable literary awards.
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