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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 .
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- The Luminaries
Feb 18, 2023 · I t has been 10 years since Eleanor Catton became, at 28, the youngest writer to be awarded the Booker prize. The Luminaries, a Victorian mystery set during the New Zealand gold rush, was the...
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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 his fortune on the goldfields.
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Eleanor Catton is a Canadian-born New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Catton’s debut novel, The Rehearsal, was published in 2008 when she was 22.
Mar 3, 2023 · Won the 2013 Booker Prize. 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.
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.
Oct 16, 2013 · Eleanor Catton. This article is more than 10 years old. Eleanor Catton: 'Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel' The 2013 Man Booker-prize winner on the unfair...