Samantha Harvey: A Booker 2024 winner who wants to spend her money on sculpting

Harvey, a tutor in creative writing at Bath Spa University, grew up in Kent, and studied at York University

The Queen talks to Samantha Harvey during a reception for the Booker Prize Foundation at Clarence House. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA

Samantha Harvey, the 2024 winner of the Booker Prize, is a former museum worker turned author.

Before snapping up the £50,000 (€60,000) literary prize on Tuesday for her novel Orbital, she said that she would like to spend the money on taking time out of her job to sculpt, and waste some of it on buying “expensive Danish liquorice”.