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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. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was ...
Mar 3, 2023 · The ‘she’ in question is 2013 Booker Prize winner, Eleanor Catton. The three of us are on a call, discussing the aftermath of the ceremony that changed her fortunes as a writer, a decade after the fact. Porter, at the time, was her editor at Granta. ‘Nando’s at the Westfield in Shepherds Bush,’ she confirms. ‘I wasn’t a fan.
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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. [2] 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. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery ...
Oct 16, 2013 · E leanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand ...
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1376194338. Birnam Wood is the third novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton. Published in February 2023, the novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland. Like her previous novel The Luminaries, the book is set in a ...
Apr 11, 2014 · The constellations of the zodiac and New Zealand's 1860s gold rush inspired Eleanor Catton to write her Man Booker-winning novel. Eleanor Catton. Fri 11 Apr 2014 12.00 EDT. Share.
Eleanor Catton is the author of the international bestseller The Luminaries, winner of the Man Booker Prize and a Governor General's Literary Award. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Betty Trask Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize.
