The BBC
announced the other day that it will be making a six-part television series of The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, who
was born in Canada but raised in New Zealand:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37184427.
Catton will be writing the BBC adaptation, which will be six one-hour episodes.
The novel
won the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for
Fiction. I posted my review of it last
year: http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2015/08/schatjes-reviews-archives-reviews-of.html. It’s a big book (832 pages) but filming will
not begin until next year so you have plenty of time to read it. I’m a firm believer in reading a book before
seeing its film adaptation.
And if you
are in the mood to watch other film adaptations, CBC Books has an interesting
list of ten Canadian book-to-movie adaptations:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/08/canadian-book-to-movie-adaptations.html.
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