Eleanor Catton

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

1. 1985
   Born
2. 2010
   Won Amazon.ca First Novel Award
3. 2013
   Won Booker Prize
4. 2013
   Won Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
5. 2014
   Won Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
6. 2014
   Won honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
7. Notable work: The Luminaries

Trivia

• •Place of birth: London
• •Citizenship: New Zealand, Canada
• •Known as: novelist, writer, screenwriter