Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton MNZM
Eleanor Catton in 2012
Born	Eleanor Frances Catton 1985 (age 38–39) London, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	New Zealand
Education	University of Canterbury (BA) Victoria University of Wellington (BA Hons, MA) University of Iowa (MFA)
Notable works	The Luminaries
Notable awards	2013 Booker Prize
Eleanor Catton's voice from the BBC programme Woman's Hour, 9 September 2013.[1]

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. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize (at age 28) and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.