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Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Ontario, Canada and raised in New Zealand. Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2007 Adam Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, The Luminaries, was awarded the the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award.

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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Eleanor Catton: Man Booker Prize Speech 2013

Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize 2013 for her novel The Luminaries, making...

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Podcasts | The Online Edition

Eleanor Catton: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 83

Eleanor Catton & Anne Meadows

Anne Meadows talks to Eleanor Catton about opium and gold, whether a good author can also be a sadist and what it means to be a New Zealand writer today.

In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview: Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton, author of the critically acclaimed, Betty Trask-award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, talks to Granta.

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Two Tides

Eleanor Catton

‘The harbour at Mana was a converted mudflat, tightly elbowed and unlovely at any tide but high.’

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