Samantha Harvey and Téa Obreht shortlisted for inaugural Climate fiction prize

The Orbital and Morningside authors join Abi Dare, Roz Dineen and Kaliane Bradley in the running for the 10,000 award, for inspiring ways to rise to the challenges of the climate crisis with hope and inventiveness'

Samantha Harvey and Tea Obreht are among the writers in the running for the inaugural Climate fiction prize.

Harvey's Orbital, her Booker-winning novel set on the International Space Station, and Obreht's novel The Morningside, about refugees from an unnamed country, have both been shortlisted for the new prize, which aims to celebrate the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis".