{"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":"

Guest of Honor:<\/h2>\n

Priya Sharma<\/h3>\n

Priya Sharma is a British fantasy and horror writer. Her fiction has\"\"<\/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>\n

Lauren Beukes<\/h3>\n

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

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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

Special Guest:<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00d8ystein Runde<\/h3>\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

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\u00d8ystein Runde st\u00e5r bl.a. bag serierne \u201dFuten,\u201d som blander amerikansk superheltemytologi, norske eventyrtraditioner og skattebureaukrati, \u201dBjartmann,\u201d hvor superheltegenren m\u00f8des med teenagelivet i den norske provinsby Ulsteinvik, \u201dDe fire store\u201d hvor Henrik Ibsen, Alexander Kielland, Jonas Lie og Bj\u00f8rnstjerne Bj\u00f8rnson udg\u00f8r Norges sidste skanse i kamp mod overnaturlige kr\u00e6fter som trolde og zombier, og \u201dOlav Sjegga,\u201d en sagafort\u00e6lling delvist inspireret af Frank Miller og den japanske samuraiserie Lone Wolf and Cub.<\/div>\n
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I andre serier bev\u00e6ger han sig i helt anderledes retninger, s\u00e5som de fabulerende tegneseriereportager \u201dMoskva\u201d og \u201dHvordan kan Los Angeles knuse hjertet mitt,\u201d eller de to illustrerede faktab\u00f8ger \u201dStamceller: Kroppens superhelter,\u201d og \u201dAntibiotika.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nogle serier har \u00d8ystein Runde tegnet selv, andre har han lavet i samarbejde med tegnere som Andr\u00e9 Solberg og Geir Moen og Ida Eva Neverdahl.<\/div>\n
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\u00d8ystein Runde har ogs\u00e5 skrevet og illustreret b\u00f8rnebogen \u201dElefanten Tommy (2012)\u201d, og sammen med Kristopher Schau and Frode Hanssen udgav han i 2019-20 videnskabs- og humorpodcasten \u201d80%\u201d.<\/div>\n
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L\u00e6s mere om \u00d8ystein Runde her:<\/div>\n
https:\/\/oysteinrunde.no\/<\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%98ystein_Runde<\/a><\/div>\n
https:\/\/snl.no\/%C3%98ystein_Runde<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest of Honor: Priya Sharma Priya Sharma is a British fantasy and horror writer. Her fiction has 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 Photo: Mark Greenwood Lauren Beukes 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 published in 24 countries and translated into 26 languages. She\u2019s also a comics writer, screenwriter, journalist and documentary maker. As a journalist, she covered stories on electricity cable thieves, HIV+ beauty pageants and has done ride-alongs with Cape Town\u2019s police through...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":811,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions\/1438"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasticon.dk\/fantasticon2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}