Richard Flanagan has become the first author in history to win both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction.Australian Flanagan secured the non-fiction award for his memoir Question 7,

Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

Percival Everett’s “James” is the favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” or Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” could take the prize instead.

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction

Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction for Question 7, a work that is part history and part memoir, which the judges described as a “meditative symphony of a book”. It is the first time in its 26-year history that the UK’s leading non-fiction prize has been awarded to an author who has also won the Booker Prize.