THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013

• Eleanor Catton, the New Zealand author, at the age of just 28 years, became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries on 15 October 2013 at the London's Guildhall.

• Catton's 2008 debut novel, The Rehearsal, was written as her Master's thesis. The Luminaries is the second novel by Eleanor Catton and was published by Granta in September 2013.

• Her 832-page novel The Luminaries is the story of 19th-century goldfields, which won 50000 Pound Man Booker Prize 2013 along with a trophy, and Emmanuel Roman.  It is important to note that The Luminaries is also the longest work to win this prize in the history of 45 years of Man Booker Prize.

• The Luminaries is the longest ever book to win this Prize, beating Hilary Mantel's 672-page Wolf Hall which received the Man Booker Prize 2009.

 Nominees of 2013 (shortlist)

• NoViolet Bulawayo for We Need New Names through Chatto & Windus
• Eleanor Catton for The Luminaries through Granta
• Jim Crace for Harvest through Picador
• Jhumpa Lahiri for The Lowland through Bloomsbury Publishing
• Ruth Ozeki for A Tale for the Time Being through Canongate
• Colm Tóibín for The Testament of Mary through Viking Press

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe.  Beginning in 2014, it will consider authors from anywhere in the world, so long as their work is in English and published in the UK. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

Recent Awardees

Year	Author	Title	Genre(s)	Nationality
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Comic novel	United Kingdom
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	United Kingdom
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	Historical novel	New Zealand

Indian Awardees

Year	Author	Title	Genre(s)
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Novel
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Novel