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 →
My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television... →
The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what... →
The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one... →
'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's... →
There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited... →
What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about... →
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't... →
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.