Samantha Harvey becomes first woman since 2019 to win Booker Prize

Harvey is the 19th woman to win since the first award in 1969. There have been 36 male winners

Samantha Harvey, left, and the front of her book Orbital, which has won the Booker Prize 2024 (Ula Soltys/Booker Prize)

British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize.

Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 (€60,000) prize and trophy at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate in the City of London.