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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.
Mar 13, 2023 · “Birnam Wood,” by the Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, is a fast-moving ecological novel and a generational cri de coeur.
Mar 3, 2023 · The Booker Prize winner talks about her eco-thriller set in New Zealand, which engages with climate crisis, digital surveillance and economic inequality. She also discusses her adaptation of The Luminaries and her views on the novel as a moral form.
Sep 24, 1985 · Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand author. Catton was born in Canada while her father, a New Zealand graduate, was completing a doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She lived in Yorkshire until the age of 13, before her family settled in Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Mar 6, 2023 · Eleanor Catton Wants Plot to Matter Again. In “Birnam Wood,” the novelist suggests that choices—how they’re made, and the long, hidden trail of their consequences—are what lend a story meaning....
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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.