Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, internationally best-selling novelist who also writes comics, screenplays, TV shows and journalism. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV.

She’s won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the prestigious University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Award for Best Horror, the Strand Critics Choice Award for Best Mystery Novel, the RT Thriller of the Year, the Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel, the Exclusive Books’ Bookseller’s Choice Award and been included in best of the year round-ups by NPR, Amazon and the LA Times. Her work has been praised by Stephen King, George RR Martin, James Ellroy and Gillian Flynn among others.

She is the author of Broken Monsters, The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past. Her comics work includes Survivor’s Club, an original horror comic with Dale Halvorsen and Ryan Kelly, due out with Vertigo in October 2015, the Fables spin-off graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda, and a Wonder Woman one-shot, “The Trouble With Cats” in Sensation Comics 9 for kids, set in Mozambique and Soweto.