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The Man Booker Prize 2013

Eleanor Catton 2013
Winner
Shortlist
Longlist

The 2013 Booker Prize was won by Eleanor Catton for her novel The Luminaries.The youngest winner at 28 crafts the longest winning book. Her novel is an intricate 832-page Victorian – in both timeframe and scale – epic.

Catton’s tale of love, greed and murder during the 19th-century gold rush on New Zealand’s west coast was structured around the signs of the zodiac. And, as if it were written in the stars, she became the second Kiwi to win the prize after Keri Hulme, whose victory came in 1985, the year of Catton’s birth.

The huge sales of The Luminaries proved a gold rush for the author whose post-win life was subsumed by writing the scripts for the television mini-series of the novel.
 

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2013 Man Booker Prize Chair Robert MacFarlane in conversation with winner Eleanor Catton

The Luminaries
The Luminaries

The Luminaries

Winner of The Booker Prize 2013

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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

The shortlist

The Luminaries
Prize winner
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
Harvest
Jim Crace’s lyrical historical fiction evokes the tragedy of a land pillaged and communities scattered, as England’s fields are irrevocably enclosed
The Lowland
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s sweeping drama, the deep bond between two brothers can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives
The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín presents a striking vision of the Virgin Mary as a mother wracked with grief, who is bitterly mourning the brutal death of her son

The longlist

The 2013 judges