Eleanor Catton has become the youngest writer to win the Booker Prize, with the longest novel to triumph in the award. Catton, 28, to be awarded the £50,000 prize by the Duchess of Cornwall at a ceremony in Guildhall in London, for her second novel The Luminaries Judges praised the “astonishing maturity and poise†of her 832-page work, saying the length of a book “doesn’t matter as long as it’s goodâ€. They added that the “dazzling, luminous, vast†novel allowed readers to get lost in a story that is “quite exceptionalâ€. It is further recognition for the genre of historical fiction. Catton’s work comfortably eclipses the 672-page Wolf Hall, winner in 2009, for length.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:48:32 +0000
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