New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has picked up another trophy for her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries.
The 28-year-old writer, who last month became the youngest person to win the coveted literary award, has been honoured with the Canadian Governor-General's Literary Award for fiction.
Ms Catton, who was born in Canada, was chosen for the $25,000 (NZ$26,147) prize by the Canada Council for the Arts early today (NZT).
Her hefty tome - an 832-page murder mystery set on the West Cost during the 1860s gold rush - is thought to be one of the longest books to ever win the country's prestigious English-language award.
But its length did not deter the praise it won from the council's judging panel.
