UK writer Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize with space novel
British writer Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize, a prestigious English-language literary award, for her novel tracking six astronauts in space for 24 hours. Harvey's "Orbital" follows two men and four women from Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain and Italy aboard the International Space Station and touches on mourning, desire and the climate crisis. Judges unanimously decided the British author should receive the prize, along with the cash prize, which Harvey says she hopes to spend on a new bike and a trip to Japan, where she once lived.
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British writer Samantha Harvey wins the 2024 Booker Prize, a prestigious English-language literary award, for her novel tracking six astronauts in space for 24 hours. Harvey's "Orbital" follows two men and four women from Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain and Italy aboard the International Space Station and touches on mourning, desire and the climate crisis. Judges unanimously decided the British author should receive the prize, along with the cash prize, which Harvey says she hopes to spend on a new bike and a trip to Japan, where she once lived.
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00:00I
00:25want to buy a new bike. And then the rest, I want to go to Japan. I don't know if I'm
00:32going to be allowed to go to Japan for a long time, whether I have the freedom, but I'd
00:38love to go back. I used to live there, so I'd love to go back there on a long trip.
00:43I couldn't make a speech that didn't reference the predicament that we find ourselves in
00:48and the book is not exactly about climate change, but implied in a view of the earth
00:56is the fact of human-made climate change. And so I think I wanted to reference it in
01:05the speech.
01:06I did it by mistake and I read what I'd written and I thought, you know, this has something
01:10that the other things I'm working on don't have. It has a kind of electricity, a sort
01:16of energy and a sense of reality to me and a sense of sincerity. So I thought, okay,
01:23I'm going to try it. I'm just going to have to do it well enough to justify my right to
01:31write about something like space. I mean, I appreciate that authors are always writing
01:35about things they don't know about, but this just felt like quite a leap.
01:39I was under no pressure in any direction from my publisher. I've always been given
01:46complete creative freedom and nobody said, could you make it a bit longer? Nobody. So
01:57I didn't really think about its size. It was a longer novel and I just kind of kept cutting
02:02and cutting. And that seemed to be, because it takes place over one day, that seemed to
02:08be the right kind of size for the book.