Eleanor Catton is an award-winning author and screenwriter.
Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won numerous awards including the Betty Trask Prize, theAmazon.caFirst Novel Award and the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, among others. The novel has since been adapted for the screen by writer-director Alison Maclean and stars Alice Englert, Kerry Fox and Kieran Charnock. It is due for release late 2016.
Eleanor's second novel The Luminaries was a huge critical success winning both the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Governor General's Literary Award 2013 . Working Title optioned the title to develop as a TV series which aired on BBC One, starring Eva Green, which Eleanor adapted herself.
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