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Eleanor Catton

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Also known as E. Catton

New Zealand writer

Person · Open Library

Born
1985
Works
5

Top works

  • The Rehearsal
  • The Luminaries
  • El ensayo general
  • Luminaries
  • Rehearsal

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Film & TV

Writing · London, Ontario, Canada

Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eleanor Catton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

  • Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema — Narrator2015

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
New Zealand
Active from
1985-09-24
has german audiobooks

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
54
Total plays
1,667

Tags

fiction

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Key facts

Born
Eleanor Frances Catton , 1985 (age 40 – 41), London, Ontario , Canada
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
New Zealand
Education
University of Canterbury ( BA ), Victoria University of Wellington ( BA Hons , MA ), University of Iowa ( MFA )
Notable works
The Rehearsal , The Luminaries , Birnam Wood
Notable awards
2013 Booker Prize

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Encyclopedic overview

Eleanor Catton MNZM (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.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eleanor Catton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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