Eleanor Catton meets the Duchess of Cornwall prior to winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, in central London. Photo / AP
Canada has claimed Eleanor Catton as its own after she won the Man Booker prize yesterday.
Canadian media, which has reported widely on her success, noted Catton was born in Ontario.
The National Post described her as "the first Canadian author to win one of the world's foremost literary awards
in over a decade". The paper's review of the novel described it as stylistically "as solid as the brick it physically resembles".
The Globe and Mail went with the more diplomatic "Canadian-born author", and said: "Despite its length, there isn't a sentence that feels weak or lazy, and by all objective criteria, The Luminaries is a remarkable accomplishment."
In Britain the Telegraph, which awarded the book five stars in its review, called it an "irresistible" novel.
