Eleanor Catton to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Victoria
The MA in Creative Writing graduate won the Man Booker prize in 2013.
Man Booker prize-winning author of The Luminaries Eleanor Catton, is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature at Victoria University of Wellington’s May graduation.
'We are extremely proud to count Eleanor among our illustrious alumni, and look forward to formally acknowledging her achievements with an honorary doctorate,' says Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Professor Pat Walsh. Read the full story.
Eleanor graduated with Distinction from Victoria's MA Creative Writing programme in 2008, winning that year's Adam Prize for The Rehearsal , which was subsequently published by Victoria University Press. The Luminaries is her second novel.
Read more about Eleanor Catton and other graduates of the MA in Creative Writing