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Cape Town’s Open Book Festival turns over a new leaf

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In the midst of the pandemic the literary festival is hosting podcasts instead of livestreamed panels
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The Portfolio: Nanna Venter

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‘Artsronaut’ Nanna Venter lets us in on her process for designing book covers, including for Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland’
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Review: ‘Afterland’ — a novel that foreshadows the Covid-19 pandemic

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For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely
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Desecrating books for art and literacy

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Nando’s Broken Monsters Charity Art Exhibition in Cape Town raised sufficient funds to cover 21 000 children’s books.
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Broken Monsters: A concatenation of nanospaces

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SA's trending author has expertly embraced new media as a medium of horror, and the characters of her female protagonists defy casual stereotyping.
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Sparkle and flair from UJ Prize writers

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UJ Prize winners Lauren Beukes and Dominique Botha have penned well-crafted novels that are innovative and refreshing reads.
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Lauren Beukes’s ‘Zoo City’ comes to life in the urban jungle

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An exhibition based on Lauren Beukes's "Zoo City" taps into the gritty energy of Jo'burg while exploring the concept of the human and urban animal.
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Taking a page from a book of art

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Bestselling author Lauren Beukes has a way with violence–a dark twisting of words.It's not a platform for cheap thrills, though.
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Leonardo DiCaprio buys rights to Lauren Beukes’s novel

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South African author Lauren Beukes's "The Shining Girls" will be adapted for television by US actor Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way.
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Grisly death passes without comment

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Lauren Beukes's latest novel, a nightmare tale of a time-hopping women-killer, is a publisher’s dream but leaves little in its wake.
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Lauren Beukes: At the forefront of the global invasion

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By ditching the tired narratives of contemplation and guilt, Beukes’s otherworldly novels have beefed up the anaemic world of South African fiction.
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City meets celluloid

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Film rights to Lauren Beukes's <i>Zoo City</i> have been awarded to a local producer. We spoke to Beukes about adapting her award-winning novel.
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Dark city

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Award-winning author <b>Lauren Beukes</b> visits the art exhibition inspired by her novel.
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What’s behind sashaying for the sash

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A local documentary about a beauty pageant for cross-dressers has a delicate, unexpected message.
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Behind all the monkey business

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<b>Gwen Ansell </b>talks genres and urban fictions with Lauren Beukes, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for her 'muti noir' novel <i>Zoo City</i>.
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