Lauren Beukes
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How funding apartheid fails young library users
Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services
Give children high-quality books from Grades R-12: they will likely read them
Research shows that classroom libraries increase reading frequency by 70% compared with centralised libraries
Cape Town’s Open Book Festival turns over a new leaf
In the midst of the pandemic the literary festival is hosting podcasts instead of livestreamed panels
The Portfolio: Nanna Venter
‘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
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
Nando’s Broken Monsters Charity Art Exhibition in Cape Town raised sufficient funds to cover 21 000 children’s books.
Broken Monsters: A concatenation of nanospaces
SA’s trending author has expertly embraced new media as a medium of horror, and the characters of her female protagonists defy casual stereotyping.
Sparkle and flair from UJ Prize writers
UJ Prize winners Lauren Beukes and Dominique Botha have penned well-crafted novels that are innovative and refreshing reads.
Lauren Beukes’s ‘Zoo City’ comes to life in the urban jungle
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
Bestselling author Lauren Beukes has a way with violence–a dark twisting of words.It’s not a platform for cheap thrills, though.
Leonardo DiCaprio buys rights to Lauren Beukes’s novel
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
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.
Lauren Beukes: At the forefront of the global invasion
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
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.
Dark city
Award-winning author <b>Lauren Beukes</b> visits the art exhibition inspired by her novel.