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Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Mar 13, 2023 · “Birnam Wood,” by the Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, is a fast-moving ecological novel and a generational cri de coeur.
Sep 24, 1985 · Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand author. Catton was born in Canada while her father, a New Zealand graduate, was completing a doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She lived in Yorkshire until the age of 13, before her family settled in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Mar 3, 2023 · In 2013, Canadian-born, New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton made history when she became the youngest person ever to win the Booker Prize. Catton was just 28 years old and her novel, The...
The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.
Mar 6, 2023 · Eleanor Catton Wants Plot to Matter Again. In “Birnam Wood,” the novelist suggests that choices—how they’re made, and the long, hidden trail of their consequences—are what lend a story meaning....
Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel is both a ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a mid-19th century world of goldrush boom and bust. To mark the 10th anniversary of her Booker win, Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter discuss The Luminaries’ journey towards publication and the prize.
Nov 20, 2013 · Eleanor Catton, the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize and only the second New Zealander, explains the roots of her novel, “The Luminaries.”
Oct 16, 2013 · “The Luminaries,” Eleanor Catton’s remarkable second novel — the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize — is a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but above all, perhaps, it is a love story, one...
Eleanor Catton won the Booker Prize in 2013. She was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She is the author of two internationally celebrated novels: The Rehearsal and The Luminaries.
