Chinmaya IAS Academy – Current Affairs Chinmaya IAS Academy – Current Affairs
Context: British author Samantha Harvey has been honored with the Booker Prize 2024 for her novel Orbital.
- Harvey is the first woman to receive the Booker Prize since Margaret Atwood’s win in 2019.
- Orbital is the first novel with a space theme to achieve this prestigious recognition.
- With just 132 pages, Orbital is the second-shortest book ever to win the Booker Prize, surpassed only by Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald.