Celebrating outstanding fiction for over five decades, the Booker Prize highlights the most compelling literary fiction each year that is written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. A panel of judges selects a longlist and a shortlist before choosing their final winner. Congratulations to British author Samantha Harvey, this year's winner!
"Samantha Harvey has written a novel propelled by the beauty of sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets. Everyone and no one is the subject, as six astronauts in the International Space Station circle the earth observing the passages of weather across the fragility of borders and time zones. With her language of lyricism and acuity Harvey makes our world strange and new for us.
"All year we have celebrated fiction that inhabits ideas rather than declaiming on issues, not finding answers but changing the question of what we wanted to explore. Our unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share." --Edmund de Waal, Chair of the 2024 Booker Prize judges
The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist
The 2024 Booker Prize Longlist
