Congratulations To Eleanor Catton, New Zealand’s Second Booker Prize Winner
Oct
17
2013
Congratulations to Eleanor Catton, whose second novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction yesterday — a tremendous achievement.
She is the second New Zealand novelist to do so, the first being Keri Hulme for The Bone People in 1985.
You can read the official announcement here.
A full NZ report on Stuff is here.
And Graham Beattie, who attended the Guildhall dinner, offers some “random thoughts” on his Bookblog, here.
I also loved Eleanor’s speech, as heard on Radio NZ, around “worth” and “value” — I think I have that right!
