Lauren Beukes biography

Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling South-African novelist who also writes comics, screenplays and TV shows. She is the author of Broken Monsters, The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past and the graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda.

The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around, made the Sunday Times best-seller list and was recently optioned by MRC and Leonardo diCaprio’s Appian Way.

Her previous novel, Zoo City (2010) won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle and was long-listed for the IMPAC Award.