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Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

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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

The Rehearsal was winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authors’ Best First Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the Prix Femina, and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize. The Luminaries was the winner of the Booker Prize 2013 and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Catton holds an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize. She currently lives in Cambridge, England.

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The age at which Eleanor Catton won the Booker Prize, making her the youngest winner ever

832

The number of pages in The Luminaries, making it the longest book to win the Booker Prize

Second

The Luminaries was Eleanor Catton’s second novel

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The age Eleanor Catton was when her family moved from Canada, where she was born, to New Zealand

Watch the 2013 Booker Prize ceremony

The Booker Prize 2013 - Full Ceremony | The Booker Prizes

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