'I'm so not an astronaut!' Samantha Harvey on her Booker|winning ...

She won the top prize with a time-distorted novel set on the International Space Station. Yet, the writer reveals, Orbital is actually 'a ...

... Booker prize winner's novel may encourage the idea that we have to ... I'm so not an astronaut!' Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning ...

“Things have changed so much, and I think that's partly why I was so nervous about writing about astronauts, because I am so unconstitutionally ...

Describing the novel as 'space pastoral', Harvey said the characters are 'just part of the image, not the lens' - and her key hope was to 'do ...

'I'm so not an astronaut!' Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning space novel – and the anxiety that drove it | @theguardian ...

You've just described my own feelings about every shortlisted book to a T. I'm not surprised by Orbital winning though, it seemed like the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Samantha Harvey about her new book Orbital, which examines the fascinating mundane-ness of outer space ...

British author Samantha Harvey's book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50000 prize and ...

Samantha Harvey poses with her book "Orbital" after winning the 2024 Booker Prize in London. Alberto Pezzali/AP.

My aim was not to foreground the political context that ... From their place of plummeting stasis, the astronauts can do nothing ...