Eleanor Catton, author of the critically acclaimed, Betty Trask-award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, talks to Granta. Catton received the 2007 Adam Award for The Rehearsal and won New Zealand’s Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. She is currently on a Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Catton’s short story, ‘Two Tides’, appears in Granta 106: Fiction Special. You can read the first chapter of The Rehearsal here. In this video interview, Catton talks about how The Rehearsal came about, the creative challenges of the short story, the usefulness of creative writing classes and her current projects.
Photograph by Heike Huslage-Koch.
