Posts Tagged ‘Lauren Beukes’
It has been an extraordinary year for the South African women of Something Wicked.
Starting with our own editor Vianne Venter who this year wrote a bunch of scripts for four different children’s series, three for television and, most recently a bi-weekly radio programme (with songs) on SAFM. Vianne has also been working on several children’s books which will hopefully see the light of day sometime in the new year.
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Tags: Abi Godsell, Cat Hellisen, Lauren Beukes, Miranda Sherry, Nerine Dorman, Sarah Lotz | 
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In association with the Open Book Festival we invite you to come join us at The Book Lounge on the 22nd of September 2012 (4pm – 5pm) for our Official Launch of Something Wicked Volume One.
We will be joined on stage by Arthur C Clarke winner Lauren Beukes and a couple of our authors will be showing up to read some extracts and and sign books.
We hope to see you there for this wonderfully exciting event.
Books will be on sale at the event or get yours now at The Book Lounge, or through our online store.
The Book Lounge:
71 Roeland St, Cape Town 8001 – Tel 021 462 2425 – Fax 021 462 2424 – email booklounge@gmail.com
interview by Joe Vaz
I think what the international thing does is it breaks it open to the mainstream and suddenly you get the people who weren't paying attention. It kind of breaks through... I guess they have cultural barricades up, and I think a lot of that, unfortunately, is against South African stuff, you know. |
 From Issue 12 (August 2011) |
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review by Vianne Venter
| Published by Angry Robot/Jacana PB 384pages RRP £7.99 (Kindle £3.59) buy from Kalahari.com In Zoo City, it’s impolite to ask. Morning light the sulphur colour of the mine dumps seeps across Johannesburg’s skyline and sears through my window. My own personal bat signal. Or a reminder that I really need to get curtains. Shielding my eyes – morning has broken and there’s no picking up the pieces – I yank back the sheet and peel out of bed. Benoît doesn’t so much as stir, with only his calloused feet sticking out from under the duvet like knots of driftwood. Feet like that, they tell a story. They say he walked all the way from Kinshasa with his Mongoose strapped to his chest. | 
From Issue 12 (August 2011) |
Escape Pod posted this interview our editor did with Lauren on the eve of her winning the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year.
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What The Book Lounge Doesn’t Tell You
Read live by Lauren Beukes at The Lounge of Horror. Recorded at The Book Lounge in Cape Town on the 23rd of October 2009. In Association with HorrorFest V ((http://www.HorrorFest.info) and Something Wicked SF and Horror Magazine (http://www.SomethingWicked.co.za)
Mechanical Rights 2009 by Something Wicked and Inkless Media