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Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize 2024 for Orbital

Author Samantha Harvey reacts to being named winner of the Booker Prize 2024, as the ceremony is broadcast live on Front Row.

She dedicates the award - revealed by the Chair of this year's judges, Edmund de Waal - to the people who work for, and not against, peace and the Earth.

Samantha tells Samira Ahmed how she almost abandoned writing the book, which follows a team of astronauts in the International Space Station.

Listen to the ceremony in full on 成人快手 Sounds.

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