Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. She was born in London, Ontario, Canada, and moved to New Zealand as a child, growing up in Christchurch. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal (2008), began as her master's thesis in creative writing. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest-ever winner of the prize. She has also worked as a screenwriter, adapting her own novels and Jane Austen's Emma for the screen, and now lives in Cambridge, England.