Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton MNZM is a Canadianborn New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In January 2015, she created a shortlived media storm in New Zealand when she made comments in an interview in India in which she was critical of neoliberal, profitobsessed, very shallow, very moneyhungry politicians who do not care about culture.

Catton was born in Canada where her New Zealand father was a graduate student completing his doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She grew up in Christchurch after her family returned to New Zealand when she was six years old she spent a year living in Leeds where she attended Lawnswood School. She referred to this experience as amazing, but a real eye opener due to the toughness of the environment. She attended Burnside High School, studied English at the University of Canterbury, and completed a Masters degree in Creative Writing at The Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington. Catton is related to author Bruce Catton.

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