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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
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 54
- Total plays
- 1,667
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,953x
- Toxicity and response criteria of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
· 1982 · cited 9,443x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,176x
- Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials
· 2011 · cited 6,858x
- Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
· 2019 · cited 6,683x
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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.