Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter, born in Canada in 1985 and raised in Christchurch. Her debut, The Rehearsal, began as her master's thesis and was later made into a 2016 film. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize and was adapted into a television miniseries with Catton as screenwriter. Her novel Birnam Wood imagines a near-future New Zealand where a secret group of guerrilla gardeners takes money from a mysterious American billionaire.