Eleanor Catton in Conversation

• Wednesday 6 June 2018, 6.00PM to 8.30pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
  Book tickets
• The Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York (map|getting to campus)
• Wheelchair accessible

Event details

Eleanor Catton is one of New Zealand's most prominent contemporary novelists, whose second novel The Luminaries won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Rehearsal, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award in 2009.

In a UK exclusive event, Eleanor will read from her current work and discuss her fiction in conversation with Alexandra Kingston-Reese of the University of York.

This event is part of the University of York’s Centre for Modern Studies Creative Dissonance research strand and the Writers at York series.

About the speakers

Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She won the 2007 Sunday Star-Times short-story competition, the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the 2008 Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary and was named as one of Amazon's Rising Stars in 2009.

Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Betty Trask Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Prix Femina literature award, the abroad category of the Prix Médicis, the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 and Stonewall's Writer of the Year Award 2011, and longlisted for the Orange Prize 2010. In 2010 she was awarded the New Zealand Arts Foundation New Generation Award.

Eleanor's second novel The Luminaries was the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award.

Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese is aLecturer in Contemporary Literature with the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature. Previously she taught at the University of Sydney, where she also completed her PhD. She is an expert in the very contemporary and is particularly interested in the intersections between novels and other art forms.