Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton MNZMis a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In January 2015, she created a short-lived media storm in New Zealand when she made comments in an interview in India in which she was critical of "neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, very shallow, very money-hungry politicians who do not care about culture."...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 September 1985
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I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.
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My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
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The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
writers
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
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I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
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I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
novels
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'