Eleanor Catton
New Zealand novelist who became the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries, a vast Victorian-inflected mystery novel. Her debut The Rehearsal demonstrated formal brilliance. She is the most celebrated New Zealand novelist of her generation.
Works
- The RehearsalExperimental novel examining rehearsal, performance, and truth in a theater school setting
- The LuminariesIntricate, astrology-structured mystery set during Otago goldrush in colonial New Zealand
- Birnam WoodThriller about strangers converging on a Tasmanian forest with hidden agendas and secrets