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…
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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…
View More Artists In Residency 2015 finalists announced!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…
View More Lauren Beukes and Mbali Vilakazi win South African Mbokodo Awards 2015Poets, novelists for South African Mbokodo Awards
The Mbokodo Awards are presented annually to recognise women in the arts, highlighting the contribution by women in the ongoing development of the arts in…
View More Poets, novelists for South African Mbokodo AwardsSouth 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…
View More South African Book Fair 2015 is hereHow to get into Lauren Beukes’ next novel
The Open Book Festival, one of the fastest growing literary festivals on the planet, will be happening in 9-13 September in Cape Town, South Africa.…
View More How to get into Lauren Beukes’ next novelLauren Beukes writes Wonder Woman!
You know how you run a blog and you start getting worried that its starting to look like you are running a shrine to a…
View More Lauren Beukes writes Wonder Woman!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…
View More Lauren Beukes Wins Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for 2013Lauren 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…
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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…
View More Lauren Beukes latest book “Broken Monsters” out in JulyLauren Beukes makes Strand Magazine critics awards 2013
Its truly awards season in the literature space for African authors. The latest nominee in a book award is South Africa novelist Lauren Beukes for…
View More Lauren Beukes makes Strand Magazine critics awards 2013Lauren Beukes in running for 2nd Arthur C Clarke Award 2014
Author Lauren Beukes is an author of several titles including Moxyland, Zoo City and The Shining Girls. Her second book Zoo City which was published…
View More Lauren Beukes in running for 2nd Arthur C Clarke Award 2014Lauren 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…
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