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sequels in the capital, bringing substantial investment and cementing
NZ's reputation as a world-class filmmaking destination.
Pop pundits are also taking note of new Kiwi stars, with Grammy Award-winning
Lorde (she of
Pure Heroine,
one of
Rolling Stone
's albums of 2013) and Kimbra (of
Goyte's 2012 smash-hit
Somebody That I Used to Know
) making huge impressions. Pages
are also being turned on the international literary scene, as evidenced by Cantabrian
Eleanor Catton. She claimed one of the world's most coveted publishing accolades in
2013, the Man Booker Prize, with her voluminous historical novel
The Luminaries
- only
the second New Zealander to do so.
