Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey, author, photographed on the day that it was announced that her novel ‘Orbital’ won the Booker Prize 2024.

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Samantha Harvey is the author of five novels and one work of non-fiction. Her latest novel, Orbital, takes place on a space station and is an account of a single 24-hour day in low earth orbit. Orbital won the Booker Prize 2024 and the Hawthornden Prize, was shortlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.

Her other novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, the Walter Scott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize, and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and the HWA Gold Crown Award. The Western Wind won the 2019 Staunch Book Prize, and The Wilderness was the winner of the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize.

Samantha Harvey is the author of five novels and one work of non-fiction. Her latest novel, Orbital, takes place on a space station and is an account of a single 24-hour day in low earth orbit. Orbital won the Booker Prize 2024 and the Hawthornden Prize, was shortlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.

Her other novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, the Walter Scott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize, and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and the HWA Gold Crown Award. The Western Wind won the 2019 Staunch Book Prize, and The Wilderness was the winner of the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize.

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