The New Zealand writer, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 for her novel “The Luminaries,” discusses her latest book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-28 20:08:04 UTC ]
The latest celebration of emerging literary talent brings thrills, charm and emotional punch to the page. But this new generation have taken an inward turn compared with the more worldly themes of bygone yearsEvery decade since 1983, an editor of the literary quarterly Granta has tasked a panel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-16 06:00:03 UTC ]
From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?Last month, a reformed Glaswegian gang member, a former personal trainer and a Booker prize winner all glammed up for a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-15 08:00:36 UTC ]
A new drop of choice up-and-coming novelists has arrived on the morning tide. Granta magazine has announced its 2023 Best of British Novelists list, geared to future stars, including picks from Sigrid Rausing, Rachel Cusk, Helen Oyeyemi, Tash Aw, and Brian Dillon. The team picked a host of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-13 13:57:54 UTC ]
A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-03-01 10:00:54 UTC ]
The prize used to champion unknowns and outsiders. But a 2014 rule change has cemented the neo-colonial cultural dominance of the US and the UKThe upstairs room of an indie bookstore. A book launch for a local author. Crisps and wine are being handed out, a buzz is in the air, congratulations... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta has acquired Eleanor Catton's follow up to her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries, which is to be a psychological thriller titled Birnham Wood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Filming has finished and editing is underway for the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton' first novel The Rehearsal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton showed "bad form" by speaking out against the New Zealand Book Awards, its organiser says. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta has reprinted a further 42,000 copies of Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton took the 2013 Man Booker Prize for "The Luminaries" at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night.This post has been updated. Please see note at bottom for details. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta is to reprint 25,000 hardbacks of Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eleanor Catton has won the Man Booker Prize 2013 with The Luminaries. Catton's second novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Favorites among year's six Booker Prize finalists — which "shows the English language novel to be a form of world literature" — are Jim Crace and Eleanor Catton. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]