Catton signs TV deal for ‘The Luminaries’
3 February 2014
Eleanor Catton has signed a deal to help create a television miniseries adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries (Granta), reports the Sunday Star-Times. Catton said she intends for the series...
Catton to be awarded honorary doctorate
30 January 2014
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, reports Booksellers NZ. Catton, whose second novel The Luminaries (Granta) won the 2013 Man Booker...
Eleanor Catton wins 2013 Man Booker Prize
16 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries (Granta), with an award worth £50,000 (A$84,000) presented at London’s Guildhall on 15 October. Catton is the second...