Eleanor Catton
E. Catton
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Who is this?
Eleanor Catton (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. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize (at age 28) and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
Career
- 1985Born
- 2010Won Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- 2013Won Booker Prize
- 2013Won Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
- 2014Won Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- 2014Won honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
- Notable work: The Luminaries
Trivia
- •Place of birth: London
- •Citizenship: New Zealand, Canada
- •Known as: novelist, writer, screenwriter
What happened recently
Eleanor Catton On Fame, Her New Book & Why The Creative Process Always Involves A Crisis Of Confidence
Eleanor Catton Talks ‘The Luminaries’ As It Initiates Its Global Rollout (EXCLUSIVE)
Eleanor Catton: 'I'm strongly influenced by box-set TV drama. At last the novel has found its screen equivalent'
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