Catton takes the crown

»The Bookseller - Katie Allen   Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday night with her second novel The Luminaries. Granta is already rushing through a 25,000-strong hardback reprint. At 28, Catton is the youngest Booker winner ever. The Guardian observed: 'it's the seriousness of Catton's work that strikes you when talking to her". The Times patronisingly mused: "She's a chick, but nobody could mistake her work for chick lit".

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