Samantha Harvey won the prestigious award for a wonder-filled novel, set aboard the International Space Station, that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth.

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her latest novel Orbital. The novel was announced as the winner at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate Market in London on Tuesday. Harvey’s book is the first story set in space to win the prestigious prize.

A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week won the prestigious Booker Prize."It seems a slightly eccentric choice because I didn't know anything about space but I've always been interested in it,