Eleanor Catton
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Eleanor Catton 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 th
Eleanor Catton in 2012
Catton at the Booker Prize ceremony in Guildhall, London, just before it was announced she had won the 2013 prize for The Luminaries.
Catton at WORD Christchurch 2014 Gala opening
The Luminaries
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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 h
Eleanor Catton
…novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize (at age 28) and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently…
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