British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize

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Booker Prize -2024

Why in news?

• British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize For fiction on Tuesday (November 12, 2024) withOrbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.

Prize money:

• Ms. Harvey was awarded the £50,000 (Rs.53.7 lakh) prize for what she has called a “space pastoral”about six astronauts circling the Earth, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. 
• Irish author Paul Lynch was awarded  the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel 'Prophet Song’.

Booker Prize :

• The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for thebest English-language novel of the year published in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. 

The Indians have won the Booker Prize:

• Arundhati Roy: Won the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel The God of Small Things. It was the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. 
• Kiran Desai:Won the Booker Prize in 2006. 
• Aravind Adiga:Won the Booker Prize in 2008