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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.

Novels

The Rehearsal (2009)
The Luminaries (2013)

Awards

	Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2009) : The Rehearsal
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2010) : The Rehearsal
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (2013) : The Luminaries
	Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2014) : The Luminaries

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Fracture (2020)
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