{"id":652,"date":"2013-10-16T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2013-10-24T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:45:04","slug":"congratulations-to-eleanor-catton-man-booker-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Eleanor Catton Man Booker Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Medbury-School-Production-Poster-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-661\" title=\"Medbury-School-Production-Poster-22\" src=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Medbury-School-Production-Poster-22-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Medbury-School-Production-Poster-22-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Medbury-School-Production-Poster-22.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Manukau Institute of Technology teacher,\u00a0Eleanor Catton, has \u00a0become the youngest\u00a0writer at age 28 to win the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Literature for her novel <\/strong><em><strong>The Luminaries<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She is the second New Zealander to win the award. The award was announced at a ceremony at the Guildhall in London this morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Luminaries<\/em> is an 832-page novel set in during the goldrush in Hokitika in the 1860s. The book\u00a0\u00a0which has a complex plot\u00a0 is full of astrological allusions and\u00a0reads as a\u00a0murder mystery.<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 150 entries for the Man Booker Prize this year and Eleanor\u2019s book was one of six on the short-list, which included the world\u2019s top writers.<\/p>\n<p>Like her New Zealand \u00a0predecessor, Keri Hulme, who won the Booker prize in 1985 with her novel, <em>The Bone People<\/em>, Elizabeth Catton has\u00a0struck a rich vein\u00a0by setting her novel on\u00a0the West Coast. Speaking on Radio New Zealand this morning Catton said that she values the Coast\u00a0 for its stunning environment and\u00a0its history of individuals who made a pile and left never to return. We look forward to seeing more\u00a0novels from Catton who has undoubtedly &#8216;struck gold&#8217; in winning the Man Booker Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of those involved in assisting with the publication of this work including Fergus Barrowman at Victoria University Press and Creative New Zealand\u00a0\u00a0which funded residencies at the University of Canterbury and Auckland University for Elizabeth Catton over the past three years. Money well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manukau Institute of Technology teacher,\u00a0Eleanor Catton, has \u00a0become the youngest\u00a0writer at age 28 to win the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Literature for her novel The Luminaries. She is the second New Zealander to win the award. The award was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}