March 14, 2014
Booker winner honoured by Coast
Novelist Eleanor Catton has been welcomed on the Arahura Marae near Hokitika as she brought her Man Booker Prize winning novel 'The Luminaries' back to the place where it was set.
She says she was able to meet the real-life descendants of a fictional character.
One on the characters in her book, pounamu hunter Te Rau Tauwhare, was named after a real Ngai Tahu person.
Catton was accompanied to the West Coast by her British publisher, Max Porter, and television producer Andrew Woodhead, who was checking locations for a planned TV series based on the gold rush era saga.
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