British writer Samantha Harvey has won the prestigious English-language Booker Prize for 2024 for her novel Orbital, AFP reported.
The work follows astronauts from Japan, Russia, the US, Britain and Italy aboard the International Space Station and touches on themes of mourning, desire and the climate crisis.
A record five women competed for the $64,500 prize, which was announced at a glitzy ceremony in London.
BGNES reminds that in 2023 the prize was won by the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov for his novel "Time Asylum".
Previous winners of the award include Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
The prize is seen as a means of discovering talent that is not necessarily well known to the general public.
The Booker is open to works of fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 | BGNES
