Tag: Lauren Beukes
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Lauren Beukes’ new novel “Afterland” launches to South African readers on April 9.
Lauren Beukes’ newest novel Afterland with a worldwide publication date of July 28, and available to South African readers as an e-book since April 6, launches online on April 9, 2020. Lauren Beukes is the author of the books Maverick: Extraordinary Women from South Africa’s Past (2004), Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010), The Shining Girls…
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African Literary Podcast 13: Lauren Beukes from Sharjah International Book Fair (with Prestige Books).
The African Literary Podcast episode 13, sponsored by Prestige Books, interviews South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter Lauren Beukes from the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018. Lauren Beukes is the author of the books Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past (2004), Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010), The Shining Girls (2013),…
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Artist in Residency 2016 recipients announced
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Lauren Ann Beukes, Victor Ehighale Ehikhamenor, Yared Zeleke and Fathy Adly Salama are the Artists In Residency recipients at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. They were selected from the longlist that was announced in December 2015. These artists will now take part in the Artists In Residency (AIR) programme which has…
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Artists In Residency 2015 finalists announced!
The Artists In Residency (AIR) programme has provided artists across discipline (visual arts; literary arts; performing arts; music & film) with the opportunity to participate in residency programmes throughout the world. This year AIR received a record 423 complete applications across genres from 40 countries across the continent. After a rigorous selection process that invited…
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Lauren Beukes and Mbali Vilakazi win South African Mbokodo Awards 2015
Lauren Beukes and Mbali Vilakazi were the big winners at this Friday’s Mbokodo Awards 2015 hosted at the Johannesburg City Hall. The Mbokodo awards are given to South African women who have done big things in the South African arts. The categories are quite a few and include Creative Writing, poetry, promotion of language and…
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Poets, novelists for South African Mbokodo Awards
The Mbokodo Awards are presented annually to recognise women in the arts, highlighting the contribution by women to the ongoing development of the arts in South Africa. As you can expect, there are ladies who have been nominated for this award who we cover regularly on this blog. In creative writing, those nominated are Rehana…
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South African Book Fair 2015 is here
The South African Book Fair 2015 will be happening from tomorrow 31st July until August 2nd at the Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg. The theme for this year’s fair is #DiscoverYourBookself as the organisers believe that the books we read shape us and they are certain you’ll find your ‘bookshelf’ here. So what will the plan…
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How to get into Lauren Beukes’ next novel
The Open Book Festival, one of the fastest-growing literary festivals on the planet, will be happening from 9-13 September in Cape Town, South Africa. This year the festival is turning five and its organisers have decided to give possible attendees a rare treat. In partnership with the Fugard Theatre and Lauren Beukes, they have announced…
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Lauren Beukes writes Wonder Woman!
You know how you run a blog and you start getting worried that it’s starting to look like you are running a shrine to a specific author? No? Well, that’s how it’s looking this week with South African author Lauren Beukes. So a few days ago I was gushing about her announcement that her book…
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Lauren Beukes Wins Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for 2013
I recently mentioned that I had our favourite writer of weird mystery novels Lauren Beukes was up for the Strand Award for her 2013 novel The Shining Girls. The Strand for the uninitiated is one of the mystery genre’s most revered publications having featured the works of folks like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells…
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Lauren Beukes, Novuyo Tshuma win South African Awards
South African Lauren Beukes and Zimbabwean Novuyo Tshuma have been collecting awards today. Beukes won the 2013/2014 University of Johannesburg Prizes going home with 75,000 South African Rands. On her part, Tshuma won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for the best literary work in English at the Media24 literary awards. Lauren Beukes won for her…
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Lauren Beukes latest book “Broken Monsters” out in July
South African author Lauren Beukes has slowly been taking over the “alternative” spaces in writing that many African writers aren’t famous for. Her first book Moxyland was a thriller about technological progress and the freedoms it removes. Zoo City followed soon and this one is about a woman who finds things using her intuition. That…
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Lauren Beukes makes Strand Magazine critics awards 2013
It’s truly awards season in the literature space for African authors. The latest nominee in a book award is South African novelist Lauren Beukes for the Mulholland-published The Shining Girls and the award in question is The Strand Magazine Critics Awards 2013. The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and factual…
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Lauren Beukes in running for 2nd Arthur C Clarke Award 2014
Author Lauren Beukes is the author of several titles including Moxyland, Zoo City and The Shining Girls. Her second book Zoo City which was published in 2010 was the novel that won the Arthur C Clark Prize for science fiction in 2011. The Arthur C Clark is the most prestigious award for science fiction in…
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Lauren Beukes book for Leonardo Dicaprio TV production company
It looks like author Lauren Beukes is going all the way as her book The Shining Girls gets signed up by MRC and Leonardo Dicaprio production company Appian Way. I came upon this information from the Hollywood Reporter as I tried to distract myself from watching the Groove Awards happening in Nairobi right now. I…