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The Booker Prize is the world’s most significant award for the best sustained work of fiction written in English by authors from anywhere in the world and published in the UK and/or Ireland. The 2024 judging panel is chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal, who is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney. The books shortlisted for the ... Orbital is a novel about six astronauts in the International Space Station, observing Earth's beauty and fragility. It is the first Booker Prize -winning book set in space and the second-shortest book in the prize history. The 2024 longlist for the Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction – is announced today, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Diverse Booker prize shortlist explores faultlines of our times Some big names missing from a final six that includes the largest number of female authors in the fiction prize ’s history