Website eleanor-catton.com 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. Read full biography of Eleanor Catton →
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if... →
I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art.... →
I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than the fact that I am right-handed. It's a... →
I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent... →
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th... →
I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and... →
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be... →
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that are going to... →
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are... →
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell... →
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split... →
My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran... →
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the... →
Website eleanor-catton.com 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.