Eleanor Catton’s long-anticipated third novel, “Birnam Wood,” is an intellectual and ecological thriller that propels readers forward with a high-pitched plot while posing broad ideological questions ...

The judges announced Tuesday that a New Zealand author, Eleanor Catton, has won the 45th Man Booker Prize, England’s most prestigious literary award, for her novel The Luminaries. The choice comes as ...

The judges described her novel, a murder mystery set during the New Zealand gold rush, as an investment of time that pays heavy dividends, and noting that "it slowly and deeply staked its claim upon ...

LONDON (AP) — Youth and heft triumphed at Britain's Booker Prize on Tuesday, as 28-year-old New Zealander Eleanor Catton won the fiction award for "The Luminaries," an ambitious 832-page murder ...

Ten years ago, Eleanor Catton became the youngest person to win the prestigious Booker Prize, earning it for “The Luminaries,” her second novel. In the years since, the New Zealander, who now lives in ...

Eleanor Catton is returning to NZ this May for a series of talks across the main centres.Ebony Lamb Photography / Supplied About 45 minutes into our interview Eleanor Catton and I are both giggling.

If candor could be monetized, Eleanor Catton would be minted in gold. For the Stateside debut of her latest novel “Birnam Wood,” the New Zealand-born novelist did not hold back Wednesday night, ...

Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for her 832-page murder mystery titled The Luminaries. At 28, the author is the youngest person ever to receive the prize, which was established in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“THE LUMINARIES”, the novel that made Eleanor Catton, at 28, the youngest-ever winner of the Booker prize, is set in a frontier town in New Zealand. Published in 2013, it opens in the smoking room of ...