{"id":880,"date":"2019-02-25T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2022-05-10T05:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:20:35","slug":"guests-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/dates-program-overview\/guests-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests of Honor \/ Special Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"
Priya Sharma is a British fantasy and horror writer. Her fiction has Lauren Beukes is the international best-selling and award-winning author of “The Shining Girls\u201d, now an AppleTV+ show starring Elisabeth Moss, \u201cZoo City\u201d, \u201cBroken Monsters\u201d and \u201cAfterland\u201d among other books. She writes across genres, including science fiction, horror, crime, fantasy and realism. Her novels have been<\/p>\n published in 24 countries and translated into 26 languages. She\u2019s also a comics writer, screenwriter, journalist and documentary maker.<\/p>\n As a journalist, she covered stories on electricity cable thieves, HIV+ beauty pageants and has done ride-alongs with Cape Town\u2019s police through the ganglands. Her prizes include the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Strand Critics Choice Aware, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the August Derleth prize and the T\u00e4htivaeltaja Award. She\u2019s currently developing original TV shows and has just finished a new novel, Bridge, due out next year.<\/p>\n The South African author lives in London with her daughter and two cats.<\/p>\n You can read about Lauren and her books, comics and TV-works at her website: https:\/\/laurenbeukes.com<\/a>\/<\/p>\n \u00d8ystein Runde er prim\u00e6rt er kendt som tegneserieskaber, men ogs\u00e5 har gjort sig g\u00e6ldende indenfor mange andre medier, s\u00e5som podcast, film, b\u00f8rneb\u00f8ger og illustreret videnskabsformidling. I sine serier leger han ofte med norsk historie og kultur, idet han blander moderniserede folkeeventyr og vikingaction med superhelte, retrofuturisme og steampunk.<\/p>\n
<\/a> appeared in venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor. Her short story “Fabulous Beasts\u201d won a British Fantasy Award and was Shirley Jackson Award finalist. “All The Fabulous Beasts” is her short story collection from Undertow Publications was a British Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner and a Locus Award finalist. \u201cOrmeshadow\u201d, her first novella (available from Tor), won a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award. Her stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish. More information can be found at priyasharmafiction.wordpress.com<\/a>
\nPhoto: Mark Greenwood<\/em><\/p>\nLauren Beukes<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nSpecial Guest:<\/h2>\n
<\/a>\u00d8ystein Runde<\/h3>\n