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2 weeks ago | 
readings.com.au | Samantha Harvey |Asako Yuzuki | |Chloe Wilson
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Samantha Harvey
So they sometimes think it would be easier to unwind the heliocentric centuries and go back to the years of a divine and hulking earth around which all things orbited – the sun, the planets, the universe itself. You’d need far more distance from the earth than they have to find it insignificant and small; to really understand its cosmic place. Yet it’s clearly not that kingly earth of old, a Godgiven clod too stout and stately to be able to move about the ballroom of space; no.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Samantha Harvey |Anne Michaels |Rachel Kushner |Percival L. Everett
Thank you for taking the time to talk to me about the Booker Prize shortlist. How many books did you have to read in your search for the best novels of 2024? And did you notice any trends among the submissions? We read 156 books. I noticed there were a lot of books focusing on issues around identity in different ways—although perhaps I’m more acutely attuned to the idea because I made an album called Identity—and reconciling the past with the present.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Samantha Harvey
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Samantha Harvey
In 2016 I believed this to be true: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo/ Only the people can save the people.” It’s the Latin American protest phrase recently used by communities recovering from devastating floods in Spain.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Samantha Harvey
Just over a week ago, Samantha Harvey won this year’s Booker Prize for her compact yet expansive novel that explores the fragile beauty of our planet. Harvey’s fifth novel and sixth book is the first Booker Prize-winning book set in space, and her victory makes her the first woman to win since 2019. Over the past few days, Orbital has hit the number-one spot in the charts, selling in record numbers and garnering widespread praise. Read more about the reaction to this year’s winner, here.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Samantha Harvey
In 2016 I believed this to be true: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo/ Only the people can save the people.” It’s the Latin American protest phrase recently used by communities recovering from devastating floods in Spain.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Samantha Harvey |Paul Lynch |Penelope Fitzgerald
Orbitalby Samantha Harvey is today, Tuesday, 12 November, named the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Harvey receives £50,000 and a trophy, which was presented to her by Paul Lynch, last year’s winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate in London. Orbital, which is Harvey’s fifth novel and sixth book, takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Rachel Kushner |Samantha Harvey |Charlotte Wood |Anne Michaels
One of the highlights of the annual Booker Prize season comes when each of the shortlisted authors is presented with a unique, hand-bound edition of their nominated works, created by Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society. These extraordinary, one-of-a-kind books are designed and made between the shortlist announcement and winner ceremony.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
samanthaeharvey.medium.com | Samantha Harvey
Poetry | Art | SelfIt starts. Stops. Wanes, and at some point has to continue. Samantha E. Harvey [SEH]·Follow2 min read·--Samantha E. Harvey [SEH], Rebuild, 2024It started with Blissand ended withfall. Inside the pointof agonythat has dissipated. A fog,sits thereinstead. A stepon her morning walksconsolidatethat a life has ended. And a new oneisaboutto.StartSamantha E. Harvey [SEH], Rebuild, 2024Artist InfoVisual artist Samantha E.
