Eleanor Catton

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Eleanor (Ellie) Catton
Eleanor Catton with Man Booker Prize 2013
Eleanor Catton with Man Booker Prize 2013
Born24 Sep 1985
London, Ontario, Canada
OccupationNovelist
NationalityNew Zealand

Eleanor Catton (born 24 Sep 1985) is a New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

Background

Catton was born in Canada where her New Zealand father was a graduate student completing his doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She grew up in Christchurch[1][dead link] after her family had returned to New Zealand when she was six years old, although she spent a year living in Leeds where she attended Lawnswood School. She referred to this experience as "amazing, but a real eye opener" due to the toughness of the environment.[2][3] She attended Burnside High School, studied English at the University of Canterbury, and completed a Master's in Creative Writing at The Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington.

In 2008, Catton was awarded a fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[4] She was described in 2009 as "this year's golden girl of fiction".[5] In 2011, she was the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury.[6]

Catton lives in Auckland and is a teacher of creative writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology.[7]

Books

Catton's 2008 debut novel, The Rehearsal, was written as her Master's thesis[8] and deals with reactions to an affair between a male teacher and a girl at his secondary school.

Catton's second novel, The Luminaries, was published in 2013. The novel is set on the goldfields of New Zealand in 1866. It was shortlisted for and subsequently won the 2013 Man Booker Prize making Catton, at the age of 28, the youngest author ever to win the Booker.[9][10] She was previously, at the age of 27, the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.[9]

At 832 pages, The Luminaries is the longest work to win the prize in its 45-year history.[10] The chair of the judges, Robert Macfarlane commented "It's a dazzling work. It's a luminous work. It is vast without being sprawling."[10] Catton was presented with the prize by the Duchess of Cornwall on 15 October 2013 at Guildhall.[10]

Awards

Works

Novels

  • The Rehearsal, a novel, first published Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2008. Published in Germany by Arche Verlag, Hamburg; translated by Barbara Schaden 2010 ISBN 978-3-7160-2632-8
  • The Luminaries, Granta Books (2013)

Other published works

  • Short stories published in Best New Zealand Fiction Vol. 5 (2008), Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (August 2009), and Granta (106, Summer 2009).

References

  1. ^ A New Line on the Fading Age of Innocence, Sunday Herald feature, 18 July 2009.
  2. ^ Tivnan, Tom (15 October 2013). "Eleanor Catton Interview". The Bookseller. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  3. ^ Cochrane, Kira (7 September 2013). "Eleanor Catton: 'I'm strongly influenced by box-set TV drama. At last the novel has found its screen equivalent' | Books | The Guardian". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  4. ^ McEvoy, Mark (14 September 2013). "Interview: Eleanor Catton". Brisbane Times. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  5. ^ McKay, Carla (21 July 2009). "Eleanor Catton: The Rehearsal | Mail Online". Daily Mail. DMG Media. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  6. ^ "The Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing". Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Eleanor Catton's success is written in the stars". The Herald. Newsquest. 7 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  8. ^ Clarkson, Annie (4 August 2009). "‘I am still astonished and a little bit suspicious that The Rehearsal has even been published’ – An Interview with Eleanor Catton | Bookmunch". Bookmunch. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  9. ^ a b Morris, Linda (11 September 2013). "Eleanor Catton youngest author ever shortlisted for Booker". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  10. ^ a b c d Masters, Tim (15 October 2013). "Man Booker Prize: Eleanor Catton becomes youngest winner with The Luminaries". BBC News. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  11. ^ Adam Award Winners
  12. ^ a b c [1] Contributor information from Granta magazine
  13. ^ Betty Trask Award Winners
  14. ^ NZ Society of Authors Awards
  15. ^ "Guardian first book award | Books | The Guardian". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. 28 November 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  16. ^ "Eleanor Catton on Orange Prize long list". Stuff.co.nz. NZPA. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  17. ^ [2] Amazon.ca: First Novel Award Books, April 2011

External links

  • [3] Sunday Times, July 2009
  • [4] Excerpts from Eleanor Catton's Reading Journal, 2007
  • [5]"Interview with Eleanor Catton"

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