Eleanor Catton who is 28 years old is the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2013 for the novel The Luminaries. She is the second New Zealander to win the Man Booker. Since she is also the youngest to win the coveted honour, it is expected that now her readership might even exceed the previous winner from her country, Keri Hulem who won the Man Booker in 1985 for The Bone People.
Writing in her praise and connecting her roots to Canada where was born, an Australian newspaper writes, "And coming only a few days after the 82-year-old Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, you could forgive Canadians for celebrating as well – Catton was born there and was six before her parents took her home to Christchurch."
The Luminaries is a murder mystery with more than eight hundred pages. It is the longest novel to be awarded by The Man Booker committee. There were many contenders for the prize but Cation clinched the award. This is one of the prestigious awards in the literary world and stands next to Nobel in terms of popularity.
Writing in her praise and connecting her roots to Canada where was born, an Australian newspaper writes, "And coming only a few days after the 82-year-old Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, you could forgive Canadians for celebrating as well – Catton was born there and was six before her parents took her home to Christchurch."
The Luminaries is a murder mystery with more than eight hundred pages. It is the longest novel to be awarded by The Man Booker committee. There were many contenders for the prize but Cation clinched the award. This is one of the prestigious awards in the literary world and stands next to Nobel in terms of popularity.
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