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Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize for Orbital

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. Orbital is a poignant exploration of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The novel, which follows six astronauts over a single day and 16 sunrises and sunsets, was

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First German Winner of Booker Prize

Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize. Her novel “Kairos,” translated from German by Michael Hofmann, has won this prestigious award. Set against the backdrop of 1986 Berlin, “Kairos” narrates a tumultuous love story between

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2023 Booker prize has been awarded to Paul Lynch

The 2023 Booker prize has been awarded to Paul Lynch, an Irish author, for his fifth novel, Prophet Song. The book, which portrays an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny, has been described by the judging chair, Esi Edugyan, as a