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Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Mar 13, 2023 · Eleanor Catton’s third novel, “Birnam Wood,” is a big book, a sophisticated page-turner, that does something improbable: It filters anarchist, monkey-wrenching environmental politics, a...
Sep 24, 1985 · Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand author. Catton was born in Canada while her father, a New Zealand graduate, was completing a doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She lived in Yorkshire until the age of 13, before her family settled in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Mar 3, 2023 · The Booker Prize winner talks about her eco-thriller set in New Zealand, which engages with climate crisis, digital surveillance and economic inequality. She also discusses her adaptation of The Luminaries and her views on the novel as a moral form.
The 2013 Booker Prize winner and her editor Max Porter reflect on the challenges and joys of creating her astrologically inspired historical novel. They share their memories of the ceremony, the reception, and the adaptation of the book.
The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. [2] Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.
Mar 14, 2023 · Eleanor Catton's novel centers on young members of an radical environmental rights group who wind up entangled with a billionaire drone manufacturer. Our...