Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She is the author of Moxyland, Zoo City, The Shining Girls and Broken Monsters. The Shining Girls won The Strand Magazine Critic’s Best Novel Award, the RT Thriller of the Year, Exclusive Books’ Readers Choice Award, and South Africa’s most prestigious literary award, The University of Johannesburg Prize.
Beukes made her comics writing debut with “All The Pretty Ponies” in Vertigo’s Strange Adventures one-shot. She also wrote “The Hidden Kingdom,” an arc of Fairest (issues #8–13), a spin-off of Bill Willingham’s Eisner Award-winning Fables series.
Beukes’ articles have been published in local and international magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, Nature Medicine and Colors, as well as The Sunday Times Lifestyle, Marie Claire, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and SL Magazine.
Beukes lives in Cape Town.
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