XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
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NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
The Shining Girls
PHOTOGALLERY HIGH RES
Chicago, 1931. Violent drifter Harper Curtis stumbles upon a house whose doors allow him to travel back and forth in time. But in exchange for this power he must hunt down and kill young, talented "shining girls." Harper is the perfect serial killer. He can’t stop, and no one can track him down. He finds young girls who he tracks down as adults and kills them, leaving anachronistic clues on their bodies. Until one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, miraculously survives. She searches desperately for her attacker, with the help of the only person who believes her, Dan, an investigative journalist who may be in love with her. "Creating a character like Harper was very disturbing. I studied the lives of actual serial killers, and they’re not sophisticated, Hannibal Lecter-kind of monsters. Generally, they’re vile, violent and impotent men. It was really hard for me to see the world through his eyes, and I tried to hurt him more than once: I broke a tendon of his, I made him get bit by a dog and stung by a bee, he broke his jaw. All the pain I caused him was cathartic."
A South African of French and Dutch descent, Lauren Beukes (Johannesburg, 1976) lives in Capetown. She writes books, comics, movie scripts, TV shows and occasionally journalism, and in 2010 directed the documentary Glitterboys & Ganglands (about a beauty pageant in Capetown). Her novel Zoo City won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Beukes says: "I don’t consider myself a genre writer. I write what I want to write. All my books are influenced by different things, the only thing they share is that (more or less) they’re all thrillers. I’m extremely lucky to be able to write. I love how words can make you enter someone else’s head. I love subverting language to reach my goals." The Shining Girls earned Beukes a spot on The Guardian’s best female sci-fi writers list and Stephen King also recommended it. Film rights to the book were bought by Leonardo Di Caprio’s production company.
The shining girls, Umuzi, Cape Town, 2013
Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel scritta con Inaki Miranda), DC Comics, New York, 2013
Zoo city, Jacana Media, Auckland Park, South Africa, 2010
Moxyland, Jacana, Auckland Park, South Africa, 2008
Maverick, Oshun, Cape Town, 2004
PHOTOGALLERY HIGH RES
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