Eleanor Catton

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Eleanor Catton in the Literaturhaus Munich, 2015

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

Eleanor Catton (2012)

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)

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
Scripts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Luminaries: Adaptation of the novel from mid-June on BBC One. In: serienjunkies.de. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .