The Luminaries - City of Parramatta Library

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Title

The Luminaries

ISBN

9780864739469

Author

by Eleanor Catton

Publisher

Victoria University Press

Publication Date

1 May 2014

Format

EPUB

Reading Options

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Number of Pages

832

Filesize

2.42 MB

Interest Age

General Audience ^(0-99)

Edition

Language

NBS Text

Historical & Mythological Fiction

ONIX Text

General/trade

Awards

Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: Fiction 2014 -- Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: People's Choice 2014 -- Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013 -- Winner of Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Category 2013 -- Short-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2014

Author Biography

Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. Her debut novel The Rehearsal won the Adam Prize and was Best First Book of Fiction at the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Internationally, it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize, and won the 2009 Betty Trask Award. It has been published in 17 territories and 12 languages. Eleanor Catton holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.

By Eleanor Catton

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