Orbital by Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize 2024
The Booker Prize is awarded annually by the Booker Prize Foundation to the best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
The £50,000 prize was awarded to Samantha Harvey on 12 November 2024. She is the first woman to receive the prize since 2019. Our warmest congratulations!
All shortlisted and longlisted novels can be found in the Bamberg University Library. We welcome you to read them!
Shortlist 2024:
- Anne Michaels: Held
- Rachel Kushner: Creation Lake
- Samantha Harvey: Orbital
- Percival Everett: James [German translation]
- Yael van der Wouden: The Safekeep
- Charlotte Wood: Stone Yard Devotional