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New novel wins inaugural M-Net Film Award

Deon's latest Afrikaans novel '13 uur' (English: '13 Hours") became the first winner of the new M-Net Literary Awards' Film Category, which honours "novels of quality by South African authors, which can be converted to excellent scripts for television".

The well-known film and television director Gerrit Schoonhoven, one of the judges in this category, says in a media release "a movie about 13 Uur can be just as riveting as the novel, and would translate brilliantly to the screen.

'13 Hours' will be published in English in 2010.

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    Both books have just been published in Europe, and the Spanish edition will be reaching South America soon. (To see the Spanish cover, and read more about the book, click here.)

  • Book signing in New York

    Deon will be at speaker at Thrillerfest 2009 at the Grand Hyatt in New York from 8 to 11 July, and will do several signings. Please watch the ITW-website for details.

  • UK release of 'a hell of a thriller'

    'Blood Safari' has just been released in the UK and Canada, and reviews are coming in:Blood Safari

    • " As Meyer writes, money and poverty and greed do not lie well together. But they make a hell of a thriller." - Matthew Lewin, in The Guardian.
    • "Every so often I pick up a book and simply devour it from first page to final paragraph. Blood Safari is one of those." - Margaret Cannon in the Globe and Mail
    • "Don't miss Blood Safari, a gripping, very satisfying, and highly recommended read." - Hilary Williamson on Bookloons.com

    More reviews, background and extras here.

  • 'Blood Safari' wins inaugural award ...

    The best thriller in Afrikaans. That was the verdict at the ATKV Literary Awards on 29 August, when 'Blood Safari' became the first book to win the new ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction. It was also awarded third place in the annual German Krimi Awards.

  • ... And hits Top Ten list in Germany.

    Deon's new thriller spent three months on the German newspaper Die Welt's list of 'Ten Best' crime novels. The German title is Weißer Schatten.

  • Russia and Japan embraces Meyer:

    Devil's Peak, The Heart of the Hunter, Blood Safari, and Thirteen Hours will be published in Russian by Centerpolygraph Publishers of Moscow soon.

    Random House Kodansha is Deon's first publisher in the Far East, and will publish Heart of the Hunter and Blood Safari.