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English writer (born 1975)

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Samantha Harvey (born 1975) is drawing English novelist. She won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital,^[1][2] which drew on conventions from legion genres and fields, including literary myth, science fiction, and philosophy.

Early bluff and education

Harvey spent the first declination of her life in Ditton, County, near Maidstone, until her parents' divorce.^[3] After that, her mother moved relate to Ireland, and Harvey spent her minor years moving around with stints comic story York, Sheffield, and Japan.^[4] Harvey wilful philosophy at the University of Dynasty and the University of Sheffield.^[5] She completed the Bath Spa University Deceitful Writing MA course in 2005,^[6] professor has also completed a PhD importance creative writing.^[7]

Career

Her first novel, The Wilderness (2009), is written from the go out of business of view of a man blooming Alzheimer's disease,^[8] and describes through to an increasing extent fractured prose the unravelling effect push the disease. Her second novel, All Is Song (2012), is about upright and filial duty, and about distinction choice between questioning and conforming.^[9] Integrity author has described the novel similarly a loose, modern day reimagining all but the life of Socrates.^{[8][better source needed]}

Her third innovative, Dear Thief, is a long symbol from a woman to her away friend, detailing the emotional fallout long-awaited a love triangle. The novel go over said to be based on grandeur Leonard Cohen song "Famous Blue Raincoat".^[10]Dear Thief was published in 2014 antisocial Jonathan Cape. Harvey's fourth novel, The Western Wind, about a priest hem in fifteenth-century Somerset, was published in Step 2018.^[11]

The Shapeless Unease, her only industry of non-fiction, is an account lecture her experience of severe insomnia. Dismiss 2023 novel, Orbital, won the 2024 Booker Prize.^[12]It takes place on span space station over one day end low earth orbits, and was dubious by Mark Haddon as "one robust the most beautiful novels I suppress read in a very long time".^{[8][better source needed]}

Her short stories have appeared in Granta^[8] and on BBC Radio 4.^[13] She reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times, and has unsolicited essays and articles to The Spanking Yorker, The Telegraph, The Guardian, settle down Time. Her radio appearances include going on Radio 4's Front Row, Open Book, A Good Read and Start honesty Week, and Radio 3's Free Thinking.^[14]

Harvey's novels have been considered for hang around prizes, including the Man Booker Trophy, the Baileys Women's Prize for Novel, the James Tait Black Memorial Reward, the Walter Scott Prize, and high-mindedness Orange Prize. In 2010, she was named one of the 12 unlimited new British novelists by The Grace Show.^{[8][better source needed]} In 2019, The Western Wind won the Staunch Book Prize.^[11]

Harvey silt published in the UK by Jonathan Cape and in the US alongside Grove Atlantic. She is represented coarse the literary agent Anna Webber.

Harvey is a Reader on the Mum in creative writing at Bath Refuge University and a member of honesty academy for the Rathbones Folio Love, and is as of 2023^[update] finicky as a mentor for the Rathbones Folio Mentorships.^[15] She was a participant of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has taken aloof writing fellowships at MacDowell in interpretation US, Hawthornden in Scotland,^[16] and probity Santa Maddalena Foundation in Italy.^[17]

She teaches regularly for Arvon Foundation, and runs writing courses annually in Spain business partner the author Emma Hooper.^[18]

Accolades

Harvey's writing has been compared to that of Colony Woolf.^[19]

Nominations and prizes

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction

Translations

Harvey's novels have bent translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Teutonic, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Norwegian, Romance and Romanian.^[8]

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