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 female writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Britain, for her novel Orbital.Harvey was called the

“All writers have to pretend they don’t care about not winning prizes. But I keep going to myself: ‘f--k! I’ve won the Booker!’.” Orbital is a surprisingly uplifting winner. Set over a single 24-hour period aboard the International Space ...