Culture of Canada win the Man Booker Prize for "The English Patient". Margaret Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for the "Life of Pi". Carol Shields's "The Stone Diaries" won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the modern short story". Munro is also a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime
The Luminaries best fiction of 2013 and "Economist" magazine's "Books of the Year" (2013). The Luminaries The Luminaries is the second novel by Eleanor Catton. It was published by Victoria University Press in August 2013, and by Granta Books on September 5, 2013. On October 15, it was announced as the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize. It is the longest book (at 832 pages), and Catton is the youngest author (at age 28), ever to have won the award. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the fledgling West