Catton shortlisted for International Author of the Year in UK National Book Awards

19 Nov 2013 - via Booksellers NZ

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in this year’s National Book Awards in the UK.

Catton, whose second novel The Luminaries (Granta/VUP) won this year’s Man Booker Prize as well as the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award, is one of six authors in the running for the prize, which is presented to an author from outside of the UK with a new book that represents ‘an outstanding literary and commercial achievement, combined with a high profile and strong sales’. Also on the shortlist is Khaled Hosseini (And the Mountains Echoed, Bloomsbury), Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch, Little, Brown), Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Orion), R J Palacio (Wonder, Black Swan), and Dan Brown (Inferno, Bantam)
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The winner of this year’s award will be announced at a ceremony in London on 11 December, along with winners of the New Writer of the Year and UK Author of the Year awards, and the seven book categories of this year’s awards.

Six titles are in the running for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award, including The State We’re In (Adele Parks, Headline); An Officer and a Spy (Robert Harris, Hutchinson); Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Helen Fielding, Jonathan Cape); Solo (William Boyd, Jonathan Cape); Oh Dear Silvia (Dawn French, Penguin); and The White Princess (Philippa Gregory, S&S).

To see the books shortlisted in each of the categories, visit the National Book Awards website here.