UK author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize with 'Orbital'

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British writer Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize, a prestigious English-language literary award, for her science fiction novel tracking six astronauts in space for 24 hours.

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00:00I couldn't make a speech that didn't reference the predicament that we find ourselves in

00:28and the book is not exactly about climate change but implied in a view of the earth

00:35is the fact of human made climate change and so I think it just I wanted to reference it

00:44in the speech.

01:00I want to buy a new bike and then the rest I want to go to Japan I don't know if I'm

01:07going to be allowed to go to Japan for a long time whether I have the freedom but I'd love

01:14to go back I used to live there so I'd love to go back there on a long trip.

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