Eleanor Catton Shortlisted For Two French Literary Prizes

Eleanor Catton has been short-listed for the abroad category of the Prix Médicis which is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match their talent".

She has also been short-listed for the Prix Femina literature award which is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women.

The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year.

Eleanor Catton has been nominated for the French language version (La Répétition) of her award-winning novel The Rehearsal

THE REHEARAL by Eleanor Catton, Granta 2009

• Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2010
• Shortlisted for the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize 2010
• Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2011
• Winner of the 2009 Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize for Best First Novel
• Winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
• Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2009
• Shortlisted for the Amazon Rising Stars promotion 2009