Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton MNZM (born September 24, 1985 in London , Ontario , Canada ) is a New Zealand writer .
Life
Eleanor Frances Catton was born in Canada in 1985 when her father was studying at the University of Western Ontario . She attended Burnside High School and studied English at the University of Canterbury before studying creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington . In 2008 she attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop . Today she lives in Auckland and teaches creative writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology (Auckland).
In 2008, Catton debuted as a writer with The Rehearsal . The novel was published by Arche Verlag in 2010 under the German title Die Anatomie des Erwachens . For her second novel The Luminaries , she was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize in 2013 at the age of 28 . This makes her the youngest person to ever receive the US $ 50,000 award, and only the second New Zealander after Keri Hulme . The Luminaries was adapted for television as a six-part miniseries starring Eve Hewson as Anna Wetherell, Himesh Patel as Emery Staines and Eva Green as Lydia Wells.
Awards (selection)
- 2010 Amazon.ca First Novel Award for the novel The Rehearsal
- 2013 Booker Prize for the novel The Luminaries
- 2013 Governor General's Award for Fiction for the novel The Luminaries
- 2014 nomination for the Walter Scott Prize for the novel The Luminaries
Works (selection)
- stories
- 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 .
- Novels
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The Rehearsal . University Press, Wellington 2008, ISBN 978-0-86473-581-2 .
- The anatomy of awakening . Translation Barbara Schaden. Arche Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7160-2632-8
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The Luminaries . Granta Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-84708-431-6 .
- The stars . Translation of Melanie Walz . btb Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-75479-3
- Scripts
Web links
- Literature by and about Eleanor Catton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Booker Prize to Eleanor Catton. Youngest winner of all time , FAZ , October 16, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Luminaries: Adaptation of the novel from mid-June on BBC One. In: serienjunkies.de. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Catton, Eleanor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , Ontario , Canada |