60 followers
98 books added

Eleanor Catton

New Zealand (b.1985)

Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

She is the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries.

Awards: Booker (2013) see all

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Rehearsal (2009)
   The Luminaries (2013)
   Birnam Wood (2023)

Awards

	2023 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
	2013 Booker Prize : The Luminaries

Award nominations

	2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Novel (nominee) : Birnam Wood
	2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (nominee) : Birnam Wood
	2023 Nero Book Award for Fiction (nominee) : Birnam Wood
	2023 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : Birnam Wood
	2014 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Luminaries
	2010 Dylan Thomas Prize (shortlist) : The Rehearsal
	2009 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : The Rehearsal

Eleanor Catton recommends

The Ministry of Time (2024)
Kaliane Bradley
"An outrageously brilliant debut. . . This is already the best new book I will have read next year."

This Plague of Souls (2023)
Mike McCormack
"Pure enchantment from an otherworldly talent. I admired the hell out of this book."

Blackouts (2023)
Justin Torres
"Erotic and beguiling, Blackouts prowls the negative spaces that surround us, inviting us to think about erasure and collage not just as literary techniques, but as psychological processes, and even as radical acts of cultural and sexual reframing. An intelligent, loving, and genuinely subversive work."

More recommendations

Visitors also looked at these authors

Elizabeth Jane Howard

About Fantastic Fiction Information for Authors