The 2013 Man Booker prize winner on the unfair treatment of female writers and why her book The Luminaries riled male critics of a certain age.
ELEANOR Catton’s life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize on Oct 15.
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