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Eleanor Catton’s “Luminaries” Wins the Man Booker Prize
Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize for her second novel The Luminaries At 848 pages, it is the longest ever work to win The Man Booker Prize, awarded to […]
Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize for her second novel The Luminaries
At 848 pages, it is the longest ever work to win The Man Booker Prize, awarded to the best novel in the British Commonwealth
Catton was born in Ontario, Canada, but has spent most of her life in New Zealand
Like many other distinguished novelists before her, she attended the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop
While there, she completed her first novel, The Rehearsal
The Luminaries centers around a murder-mystery during the lucrative New Zealand Gold Rush of the 1860’s
The Central Otago Gold Rush, as it is known today, brought in tens of thousands of prospectors to what is now modern-day Dunedin
Catton also structured the novel’s plot using astrological and planetary signs
Other Great works of New Zealand Literature include:
Katherine Mansfield’s “Garden Party” (1922)
And Janet Frame’s Owls do Cry (1957)
Maurice Shadbolt’s Season of the Jew (1974)
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