Tag: The Shining Girls
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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…