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Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch . She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters .
[32] In an interview with The Guardian, Catton said the book was subject to a "bullying" reception from older male reviewers in New Zealand. [ 33 ] By August 2014, a year after the book's publication, The Luminaries had sold 560,000 print and digital copies, of which 120,000 were sold in New Zealand (most New Zealand fiction sells 1000 to 2000 ...
Birnam Wood is the third novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton.Published in February 2023, the novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland.
'Birnam Wood,' the third novel by Eleanor Catton, trades in the sprawl of 'The Luminaries,' which won the Booker Prize, for a thriller that's far too neat.
The Rehearsal is the 2008 debut novel by Eleanor Catton. It was first published by Victoria University Press in New Zealand. The Rehearsal was later bought by Granta Books in the UK and released there in July 2009. In 2016, the film adaptation was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the Toronto International Film Festival. [1] [2]
Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver, a working class kid who gets into Oxford on a scholarship, but finds himself isolated from his wealthier, more privileged classmates—that is, until he meets the ...
The Luminaries is a 2020 drama television miniseries written by Eleanor Catton (based on her 2013 novel The Luminaries) and directed by Claire McCarthy.The series is centred on a young adventurer named Anna Wetherell (), who has travelled from the United Kingdom to start a new life in New Zealand during the 1860s West Coast gold rush.
) is a 2020 period romantic comedy film directed by Autumn de Wilde, from a screenplay by Eleanor Catton, based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel of the same name. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Miss Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and elegant young woman living with her father in Regency-era England who amuses herself with matchmaking and meddles in the ...