The Rehearsal takes centre stage with Adam Prize
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A novel described by examiners as "viciously funny, wonderfully fresh and bold" has been awarded the 2007 Adam Prize in Creative Writing.
The author of The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton, completed a BA Honours at Victoria last year, and this year won the prestigious Sunday Star Times Story Award. Previous Adam Prize recipients include acclaimed authors Catherine Chidgey, Paula Morris and William Brandt.Supported by Wellingtonians Denis and Verna Adam through the Victoria University Foundation, the $3000 prize is awarded annually to an outstanding student in the Masters in Creative Writing programme in the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Damien Wilkins, co-convenor of the MA Programme, says the Adam Prize underlines the breadth of Ms Catton's talent and that her novel is a remarkable achievement.
Of the standard of work submitted for final assessment by the twenty MA students, Mr Wilkins says "there were several books worthy of winning the Adam Prize, and a number of fiction writers and poets are sure to figure in our literature in the future."
17/12/07