Eleanor Catton, the New Zealand author,
at the age of just 28 years, became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker
Prize for her novel The Luminaries on 15 October 2013 at the London's
Guildhall.
Catton's 2008 debut novel, The
Rehearsal, was written as her Master's thesis. The Luminaries is the second
novel by Eleanor Catton and was published by Granta in September 2013.
Her 832-page novel The Luminaries is
the story of 19th-century goldfields, which won 50000 Pound Man Booker Prize
2013 along with a trophy, and Emmanuel Roman.
It is important to note that The
Luminaries is also the longest work to win this prize in the history of 45
years of Man Booker Prize.
The Luminaries is the longest ever book
to win this Prize, beating Hilary Mantel's 672-page Wolf Hall which received
the Man Booker Prize 2009.
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