New Zealand author Eleanor Catton visits Jaume Fuster Library

Birnam Wood (El bosque Birnam) (Letras de Plata, 2024), set in South Island, New Zealand, is an eco-thriller charged with dramatic force and a warm-hearted vision of what motivates us to survive. A reflection on intentions, actions and their consequences, as well as the human drive to ensure one’s own survival. The author is the New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton, winner of the Booker Prize for The Luminaries. Catton will visit Jaume Fuster Library on the last day of September to talk about her latest publication, in an event that forms part of the ‘Parlem amb’ programme and is co-organised by Casa Àsia and Biblioteques de Barcelona in collaboration with the Embassy of New Zealand to Spain. The event, in which Catton will talk with the writer and journalist Anna Ballbona, is also part of the America’s Cup Cultural Regatta of Barcelona City Council, as well as the cycle ‘Meeting with New Zealand writers’.

Eleanor Catton (Ontario, 1985) moved with her family to New Zealand at the age of six. In 2007 she obtained a Master’s degree in Creative Writing, and her first novel, The Rehearsal, written as a graduate thesis for the Master’s degree, won the Adam Award, and was a great success with critics and readers in New Zealand, Britain and the USA. Both her first and second works, The Luminaries, have been awarded numerous prizes.

The talk will start at 6.30 p.m. and admission is free. More information, here.