Bucher received the youngest laureate

The New Zealand writer Eleanor Katton at the age of 28 became the youngest winner of the Buker Prize, and her 832-page novel “Sveta” turned out to be the longest in the history of the Boker.

Katton began to write her second novel when she was 25 years old, reports The Telegraph . Having received the Buker Prize on Tuesday in the evening, on October 15, she broke the record set in 1991 by the Nigerian writer Ben Rrie, who became the laureate of the Boker at 32.

The jury of the award preferred the book of Eleanora Katton to the works of Noveiolet Bulavayo (Zimbabwe), Jim Kreis (Great Britain), Jumps Lahiri (USA), Ruth ODKY (Canada) and Kolma Toybin (Ireland), also included in the short-list of the 2012 booker.

The jury noted the “amazing maturity and balance” of Katton's prose. In their opinion, the volume of the novel "does not matter if it is really good."

The Luminaries ( The Luminaries ) tells about the times of gold fever in Victorian New Zealand. In recent years, this is the third historical novel, which received the Buker Prize - in 2009 and 2012 it was awarded to the British writer Hilary Mancheel for the books “Body Body” and “Wolf Hall” dedicated to the history of England.