Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and was an international bestseller. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television and Jane Austen’s Emma for a feature film starring Anya Taylor-Joy and directed by Autumn de Wilde. She lives in Cambridge, England.