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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery involving a series of unsolved crimes.
Aug 24, 2013 · The curious case of the 3-star review… I reviewed The Luminaries for We Love This Book [a web magazine that is now defunct]; here I’ll simply attempt to explain why I gave such an accomplished book only 3 stars. It’s just the sort of book I should have given 5 stars: my MA is in Victorian Lit., Charles Dickens is a favorite author, and I adore historical fiction, particularly Victorian ...
Oct 15, 2013 · Eleanor Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries.Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2009 Betty Trask Award and the Adam Prize in Creative Writing, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Oct 7, 2014 · Eleanor Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries.Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2009 Betty Trask Award and the Adam Prize in Creative Writing, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Oct 16, 2013 · “The Luminaries,” Eleanor Catton’s remarkable second novel — the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize — is a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but above all, perhaps, it is a love ...
Oct 15, 2013 · Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and was an international bestseller.
Aug 1, 2013 · Eleanor Catton’s epic novel was adapted for television as a six-part series, with a script written by Catton herself. In a piece for the BBC, Catton revealed she had written ‘perhaps 200 drafts of the first episode alone’ by the time the show started filming in late 2018. ‘Throughout the shoot, the scripts continued to change in order to fit the budget and the schedule, both of which ...
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets Deadwood in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.
Oct 7, 2014 · About the Author Eleanor Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries.Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2009 Betty Trask Award and the Adam Prize in Creative Writing, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of ...
Oct 7, 2014 · Eleanor Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries.Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2009 Betty Trask Award and the Adam Prize in Creative Writing, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize.She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.
