EleanorCatton has won this year’s Man Booker Prize, Britain’s mostprestigious literary award, for her second novel, “The Luminaries.” Bornin Canada and raised in New Zealand, the 28-year-old writer is the youngestperson ever to win the Booker.

埃莉诺﹒凯通通过她的第二部小说《名人》赢得了今年的布克奖,英国最负盛名的文学奖项。在加拿大出生并成长在新西兰,这位28岁的作家是布克奖有史以来最年轻的获奖者。

“TheLuminaries” is an enormous and enormously complex novel set in the gold rushtown of Hokitika, New Zealand, around 1865.

“名人”是大约1865年在新西兰，有巨大的和非常复杂淘金热的城镇Hokitika为背景的小说。

When she accepted the award,Catton said, ” ‘The Luminaries’ was, from the start, a publisher’s nightmare.”She thanked her editors for “striking a balance between making art and makingmoney. ”

当她接受这个奖项时,凯通说，“《名人》,一开始就是一个出版商的噩梦。”她因“平衡艺术创作和赚钱”而感谢她的编辑。