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Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize for Space-Station Novel Orbital
It’s the second-shortest book to be awarded the prize.
Orbital, British writer Samantha Harvey’s fifth novel, set on the International Space Station, was awarded the Booker Prize in Fiction at a ceremony held today in London. This year, she beat out Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner; Held, by Anne Michaels; The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden; Stone Yard Devotional, by Charlotte Wood; and James, by Percival Everett. “In offering us a vision of our planet as borderless and interlinked, Harvey makes the case for the futility of territorial conflicts, and the need for co-operation and respect for our shared humanity,” the judges said.
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