English writer Samantha Harvey unanimously wins the Booker Prize

Samantha Harvey (Kent, 1975) won this Tuesday the Booker Prizeone of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, for the novel ‘Orbital’. Each year the Booker chooses the best original novel written in English by a citizen of a country belonging to the Commonwealth or Ireland.

This book, about the adventures of six fictional astronauts on the International Space Station, won the Booker by the unanimous vote of the jury. «Our unanimity recognize your beauty and ambition. “It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share,” explained jury spokesman Edmund de Waal, according to The Guardian.

Harvey, which in Spain is published by Anagramis the author of ‘An Undefined Malaise: A Year Without Sleep’, ‘The Wilderness’, ‘All Is Song’, ‘Dear Thief’ and ‘The Western Wind’. Additionally, she is a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

In the past, this prize – which has been awarded since 1969 – has fallen into the hands of authors such as Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, JM Coetzee and William Golding.