Who is the youngest author to win the Booker Prize, at age 28?

Eleanor Catton is the youngest author to win the Booker Prize, taking the award at age 28 for “The Luminaries.”

Catton won the 2013 prize for her second novel, a sprawling historical mystery set during the 1866 gold rush on New Zealand’s South Island. The book uses an elaborate structure influenced by astrology, with its characters and chapters arranged around the signs and planets of the zodiac.

At 832 pages, “The Luminaries” was also the longest novel to win the prize at the time. Catton had already made Booker history the previous year by becoming, at age 27, the youngest author ever shortlisted for the award.

Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Catton became only the second New Zealander to win the Booker. The first was Keri Hulme, whose novel “The Bone People” won in 1985.