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Friday Nanna Venter - 20 Aug 2020

‘Artsronaut’ Nanna Venter lets us in on her process for designing book covers, including for Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland’

Review: ‘Afterland’ — a novel that foreshadows the Covid-19 pandemic

Article Theresa Mallinson - 23 Apr 2020

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

Desecrating books for art and literacy

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Nov 2015

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

Article Chris Roper 1 - 22 Aug 2014

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

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Jun 2014

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

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jan 2014

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.

Taking a page from a book of art

Article Nechama Brodie - 5 Sep 2013

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

Article Mg Online & Staff Reporter - 3 Jun 2013

South African author Lauren Beukes's "The Shining Girls" will be adapted for television by US actor Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way.

Grisly death passes without comment

Article Jane Rosenthal - 19 Apr 2013

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

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Mar 2013

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

City meets celluloid

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Nov 2011

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

Dark city

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Nov 2011

Award-winning author Lauren Beukes visits the art exhibition inspired by her novel.

What’s behind sashaying for the sash

Article Nechama Brodie - 10 Jun 2011

A local documentary about a beauty pageant for cross-dressers has a delicate, unexpected message.

Behind all the monkey business

Article Gwen Ansell - 6 May 2011

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

Science fiction’s Very Big Deal

Article Staff Reporter - 3 May 2011

South African author Lauren Beukes speaks to the M&G about winning the Arthur C Clarke Award.

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