AT 28, ELEANOR CATTON IS YOUNGEST MAN BOOKER
WINNER
Eleanor Catton won the
2013 Man Booker prize for English fiction on Tuesday for her novel "The
Luminaries" and became the youngest winner in the award's 45-year history.
The
28-year-old New Zealand novelist won the award because her novel is “awesome in
its structural complexity; addictive in its story-telling; and magical in its
conjuring of a world of greed and gold," Chair of judges Robert Macfarlane
said.
The other shortlisted authors for the prize were Canadian Ruth Ozeki for
"A Tale for the Time Being", Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri for
"The Lowland", Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo for "We Need New
Names", Briton Jim Crace for "Harvest" and Irish writer Colm
Toibin for "The Testament of Mary.”
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