Leonardo DiCaprio Acquires Beukes’ Shining Girls for TV

Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death goes on HBO – Nigerian Eye Newspaper March 02, 2019 06:16

[…] African novel—like when Lupita Nyongo acquired the rights for Adichie’s Americanah or when Leonardo di Caprio’s production company bought the rights to Lauren Beukes’s Shining Girls. But acquiring rights is just the first step in a process that is so long and so complicated that […]

Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death goes on HBO – Nigerian Eye Newspaper March 01, 2019 06:32

[…] when Lupita Nyongo acquired the rights for Adichie’s Americanah or when Leonardo di Caprio’s production company bought the rights to Lauren Beukes’s Shining Girls. But acquiring rights is just the first step in a process that is so long and so complicated that […]

Yet Another African Novel Begins the Journey to the Big Screen | Khaled Towfik’s Utopia | Brittle Paper July 03, 2015 00:35

[…] Uzodinma Iweala’s Beast of No Nation, and now Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia. [See HERE, HERE, and […]

Bandele’s Promising Trailer, Beukes’ DiCaprio Deal, Is This A New Dawn For African Fiction? | Brittle Paper July 24, 2013 10:06

[...] of Half of a Yellow Sun looks promising. I’m willing to bet on its box office success. A few weeks ago, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company bought the rights for Shinning Girls, a crime thriller written by South African Sci-fi writer, Lauren Beukes. Is this a trend that will [...]

PHOTOS: Celebrating African Fiction! Bibi Bakare, Billy Kahora, Igoni Barrett at the Lauch of The Etisalat Prize for Fiction | Brittle Paper June 09, 2013 13:34

[...] I would have been quite content with Teju Cole winning the International Literary Prize and Lauren Beukes getting the big Hollywood break. But two days ago, the Etisalat Prize for Literature was launched at The Wheatbaker in Lagos to [...]