Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton: Five minutes each is how long her British publisher is allotting for the seemingly endless day and night media interviews that have ruled her life since Tuesday when at 28 she became the youngest winner ever in the 45-year history of the award, according to The Star. When you re life is time-slotted so intensely that you re giving interviews by phone from the back of cars, Saturday may seem like an eternity away. But its only a blink away from her shocking win when she will land in Calgary, stop one of four-city tour of book festivals that will bring her to Vancouver, Toronto for three events at the International Festival of Authors then Windsor for a fourth IFOA event and Eleanor Catton is living in five-minute intervals in the lead-up to her first book tour coincidentally of her homeland Canada since winning the coveted Man Booker prize for her 832-page book, The Luminaries . It gives Catton just enough time to talk briefly about her out of body experience of winning, where it took a while for my mind to catch up with what my body was feeling but only because she is adept at speaking quickly. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.