Yesterday, British author Samantha Harvey received the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. The meditative e book follows six astronauts from completely different international locations who’re orbiting the earth for 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets. They full on a regular basis actions, like making ready dehydrated meals and exercising, whereas considering the cosmos.
Edmund de Waal, a author and artist who was on this yr’s Booker judging panel, mentioned Orbital was a “miraculous novel,” and that it “makes our world strange and new for us.”
Harvey is the primary British author since 2020 to win the Booker prize, which was based in 1969 and is open to writers of any nationality who write in English. Her novel was chosen out of 156 by authors from Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, and the U.S.
She is going to get £50,000 (or about $64,000) for her win, which she plans to spend on taxes, a brand new bike, and possibly even a visit to Japan.