Booker Prize 2024: Meet the authors
Samantha Harvey's Orbital has been named the winner of the 2024 in a special edition of Front Row broadcast live from the ceremony on Tuesday 12 November.
Watch her reaction, plus hear what she had to say to Front Row about her space-themed novel - including how she almost abandoned writing it - and scroll down to hear from the other five shortlisted authors too...
WINNER: Samantha Harvey - Orbital
Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize 2024 for Orbital
The author reacts to being named this year's Booker Prize winner live on Front Row.
This year's winning novel Orbital tells the story of six space-bound humans - four astronauts and two cosmonauts - who are orbiting mother earth on a craft that keeps them a hand-span away from the universe.
Based on the international space station, it tells the story of a day in their lives. Samantha spoke to Nick Ahad about the book…
Samanatha Harvey
The Booker Prize shortlisted author on her novel Orbital.
Percival Everett - James
This is Percival Everett's second time on the shortlist in just three years, having last been nominated for The Trees, and last year his novel Erasure was adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
James is a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. The idea came to Everett playing tennis and he was shocked to discover it had never been done before. He tells Samira Ahmed why he thought Mark Twain’s classic looms so large in America’s cultural psyche, as well as his own...
Percival Everett
The author talks to Front Row about his Booker Prize shortlisted novel James.
Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake
Nominated before, for her meticulously researched novel The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner's latest book Creation Lake is more of a wild fantasy.
It’s told from the point of view of a glamorous female freelance spy with a track record of entrapping impressionable young men. She’s hired to infiltrate a group of eco activists in southern France, who’ve formed a kind of cult around a famous philosopher.
Samira started by asking Rachel how she was feeling about her second Booker nomination...
Rachel Kushner
The Booker Prize nominated author talks to Front Row about her novel Creation Lake.
Anne Michaels - Held
Canadian writer Anne Michaels has won prizes before for both her poetry and her prose, including the Orange Prize for Fiction for her acclaimed 1996 novel Fugitive Pieces.
Held begins on a French battlefield in 1917 and ends in the very near future, following a trail of family connections through stories of love and grief. There’s a sense of something otherworldly in this book and Anne started by telling Tom Sutcliffe whether that came from personal experience…
Anne Michaels
The Booker Prize nominated author on her novel Held.
Yael van der Wouden - The Safekeep
Set in 1961, The Safekeep follows three twenty-something siblings whose mother has died. An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes – and the legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies.
Yael told Samira how it felt to be nominated for the Booker Prize 2024 with her debut novel…
Yael van der Wouden
The author talks to Front Row about her Booker Prize nominated novel The Safekeep.
Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional
The idea of a closed religious order has sparked the imagination of many writers, including Charlotte Wood, whose novel Stone Yard Devotional takes us into a world of fortitude, forgiveness and grief - threaded with wry humour.
Set in a small nunnery which also welcomes guests on retreat, Charlotte told Kirsty Young why it’s her most personal novel to date…
Charlotte Woods
The author talks to Front Row about her Booker-nominated novel Stone Yard Devotional.
The winner of the Booker Prize 2024 will be revealed during a special edition of Front Row broadcast live from the ceremony on Tuesday 12 November. Join Samira Ahmed, the judges and the nominees at 9.30pm on 大象传媒 Radio 4.
