Literature|The value of the Booker Prize is around 60,000 euros.
in London the prestigious Booker prize for shared literature has won British author Samantha Harveyn of the novel Orbital.
Harvey’s work follows the lives of a total of six astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station. The 136-page novel deals with grief, desire and the climate crisis, among other things. Orbital is the second shortest book to win the Booker Prize.
Harvey dedicated the award to “all people who speak for the Earth and not against it and work for peace and not against it.”
This year, the list of finalists was historic, as five of the six works that made it to the chalk lines were written by women.
Orbital is 49-year-old Harvey referring novel. His works have not been translated into Finnish so far.
Already in 2009, with his first novel, The Wilderness, Harvey made it to the so-called long list of the Booker Prize, from which the final works are selected.
Booker Prize is awarded to an English-language novel published in Britain or Ireland and is worth £50,000, or around €60,000. The award was presented to Harvey at a ceremony in London by last year’s winner, an Irishman Paul Lynch.
Previous winners include, among others Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969.
In addition to the English-language work, the international Booker Prize is also awarded annually to a novel translated into English. This year winning work was a German writer Jenny Erpenbeckin Kairos, which was already awarded in May.