Sandi Tan is adapting Elif Batuman's Pulitzer-finalist bestselling novel "The Idiot" (Penguin) as a screenplay she will direct as a feature film, with Animal Kingdom and Cinereach producing.
After being blown away by that magnificent masterpiece, I learned that she had also penned this novel, set in a land she calls The Black Isle, which is undoubtedly a thinly-veiled version of her native Singapore. "Tan constructs a debut novel that is beautifully written yet deeply disturbing. Her short films Moveable Feast and Gourmet Baby have played at over 100 film festivals including the New York Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand and at MoMA, as well as broadcast internationally on RAI, SBS and ZDF/arte.
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Filmmaker Sandi Tan told the Cut that her next project would be an adaptation of Elif Batuman's novel The Idiot — it's a book about a hapless college freshman.
The first 10 pages of Sandra Newman’s debut novel hint at delights to come. 2. I first encountered the polymath author, Sandi Tan, through her documentary Shirkers, which you owe it to yourself to watch if you have not already. Sandi Tan April 27, 2006. ... Sandi Tan was born in Singapore and has an MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University. Sandi Tan goes from Shirkers documentary to Lurkers new novel 07/12/2019 Comments Off on Sandi Tan goes from Shirkers documentary to Lurkers new novel SINGAPORE – More than a year on from the premiere of her award-winning film Shirkers, Singapore-born director Sandi Tan has revealed that she is working on a new novel – Lurkers. Sandi Tan published a cult zine called The Exploding Cat at 16 and at 22 became the film critic at The Straits Times, Singapore's largest newspaper (1995-1997). Then she threw all that away to run off to film school at Columbia University.
Among other prizes, it won the Best Documentary of 2018 award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and was the runner-up for Best Documentary of 2018 from the New York Film Critics Circle. SINGAPORE – More than a year on from the premiere of her award-winning film Shirkers, Singapore-born director Sandi Tan has revealed that she is working on a new novel – Lurkers.She posted on Facebook on Tuesday (July 9) that Lurkers, which tracks “a group of suburban Los Angeles neighbours with interlocking furies and desires”, has been picked up by independent American publisher Soho Press, which also published Singaporean Clarissa Goenawan’s novel Rainbirds last year (2018).Tan described Lurkers, which is expected to come out late next year (2020) or 2021, as “darkly hilarious” and “somewhat about female anger management”.Its characters include “two precocious Korean-American sisters whose world is rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher; an ageing gay horror novelist; and a mother and daughter with lifelong anger issues”.“There will be monsters, there will be ghosts, there will be blood in the snow (from a handbag face-smash),” she wrote in her post.Tan, who turns 47 this year and is based in California, declined to speak to The Straits Times about the novel, saying it was still too early to share more.Lurkers will be her second novel after The Black Isle (2012), a historical horror tale set on an island in South-east Asia, with a heroine who can see ghosts.Her acclaimed Netflix documentary Shirkers (2018) – about how she and two friends made a movie as teenagers, which was stolen by their American mentor and rediscovered years later – toured festivals and won a directing award at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary section.Tan is also working on a film adaptation of The Idiot, Turkish-American author Elif Batuman’s 2017 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Harvard freshman’s obsessive crush on an older student.In an interview with The Cut magazine, she described the book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as “the intelligent, creative young woman’s Twilight” and said she envisions her adaptation to be like Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo, but told from a female point of view.Whoopi Goldberg Almost Died From A VERY Common Mistake!Our Infertility Is No One’s ‘Fault’ — and None of Your BusinessSandi Tan goes from Shirkers documentary to Lurkers new novel on Sandi Tan goes from Shirkers documentary to Lurkers new novelWe and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences.
It was nominated for Best Documentary awards at the Independent Spirit awards, the Gotham awards and the Peabody awards. Debut Author Interview: Sandi Tan, Author of the Literary Horror Novel, THE BLACK ISLE. Tsunami footage on Fox News. Sandi Tan, the filmmaker behind last year’s documentary Shirkers (and the subject of a profile by Anna Silman today on the Cut), is at work on a film adaptation of Elif Batuman’s hit novel The Idiot.So on this week’s podcast, we got Sandi and Elif together in the studio to … So we brought Elif and Sandi into the studio to talk. She has the gift of the haiku.
This edition of our Debut Author Interviews is with the very successful 2012 first-time novelist, Sandi Tan, who penned the acclaimed ghost story, THE BLACK ISLE (August 2012, Grand Central).
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