She wrote the book while holed up in her house during the pandemic and watching footage of the Earth from space on her computer
Britain’s Samantha Harvey is its winner Booker Prize for 2024 for her novel Orbitalreferring to a day on the International Space Station, which he wrote during the covid lockdowns.
The novel, which is Harvey’s fifth, was the top seller among the top six finalists and has sold more copies than the three previous Booker winners combined as readers seem to have enjoyed her portrayal of beauty Earth from space. The award was presented for the 55th year.
Previous winners of the prestigious Booker, for which novels written in the English language compete, include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Jean Martel. As Harvey said, she wrote the book while holed up in her house during the pandemic and watching footage of the Earth from space on her computer screen.
She likened the experience of the six characters in her book to being “trapped in a can” referring to the lockdown.
Her 136-page novel takes place over a 24-hour period during which astronauts and cosmonauts see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets as they orbit the Earth.
“The subject of the book is everyone and no one. With her lyrical language Harvey presents our world to us as strange and new,” says Edmund de Waal, the 2024 jury president.
The award comes with around €60,000, which Harvey told the BBC she will use to buy a new bike.
Source :Skai
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