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Eleanor Catton


New Zealand (b.1985)

Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

She is  the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Novels
   The Rehearsal (2009)
   The Luminaries (2013)
   Birnam Wood (2023)
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The Ministry of Time (2024)
Kaliane Bradley
"An outrageously brilliant debut. . . This is already the best new book I will have read next year."
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This Plague of Souls (2023)
Mike McCormack
"Pure enchantment from an otherworldly talent. I admired the hell out of this book."
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Blackouts (2023)
Justin Torres
"Erotic and beguiling, Blackouts prowls the negative spaces that surround us, inviting us to think about erasure and collage not just as literary techniques, but as psychological processes, and even as radical acts of cultural and sexual reframing. An intelligent, loving, and genuinely subversive work."

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Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2009) : The Rehearsal
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2010) : The Rehearsal
Booker Prize Best Novel winner (2013) : The Luminaries
Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2014) : The Luminaries


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