Query: New Zealand novels that are award-winners
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Luminaries
Evidence from documents: The Luminaries: '''''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. The novel's complex structure is based on the system of Western astrology, with each of the twelve local men representing one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and with another set of characters representing planets in the solar system.


The novel has won many awards and honours, including the 2013 Man Booker Prize. It was adapted into the BBC/TVNZ miniseries ''The Luminaries'' in 2020.