Eleanor Catton Becomes Youngest Winner Of Man Booker Prize
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has, at the age of 28, become the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.
Her 832-page tale of the 19th-century goldfields is also the longest work to win in the prize’s 45-year history.
- Eleanor Catton was born on 24 September 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand
- She has an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters
- She currently lives in Auckland.
- Her debut novel The Rehearsal (2008) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize
- It has since been published in 17 territories and 12 languages
- The Luminaries was published on 5 September 2013
Image: David Catto Source for information: BBC
Posted on: 16th October 2013
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832 pages???
Pfft!
Amateur.
Wait till they get a load of *mine*. :0)
Wow! What a fantastic news burst. She’s a woman. She’s young. She’s beautiful. And she’s a winner. All good.
She is Canadian, too. Canada’s having a good week. Alice Munro just one the Nobel prize.
Great, Congratulation.
Mooi hoor