Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton MNZM (* September 24, 1985 in London, Ontario, Canada ) is a New Zealand writer.

Life

Frances Eleanor Catton was born in Canada when her father studied at the University of Western Ontario. They even visited the Burnside High School and then studied English at the University of Canterbury, before studying creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2008 she took part in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She now lives in Auckland and teaches creative writing at Manukau Institute of Technology ( Auckland ).

2008 Catton debuted with The Rehearsal as a writer. Under the German title The Anatomy of awakening the novel was published in 2010 in Ark Publishing. For her second novel, The Luminaries, she was honored in 2013 at the age of 28 years with the prestigious Booker Prize. It is thus the youngest person ever to win the 50,000- dollar prize and to Keri Hulme only the second New Zealander.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Two tides. In: Alex Clark ( ed.): New fiction special. Granta Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-929001-36-1.
  • The living room. In: Paula Morris ( ed.): The Penguin Book of contemporay New Zealand short stories. Penguin Books, Rosedale 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-300681-7, pp. 136-143.
  • Glass. In: Owen Marshall ( ed.): Best New Zealand Fiction. Vol 5, Vintage Books, Auckland 2008, ISBN 978-1-86941-979-0.
  • The Rehearsal. University Press Wellington 2008, ISBN 978-0-86473-581-2. The Anatomy of awakening. Arche Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7160-2632-8 (Translated by Barbara damage).
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