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Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes is a recovering journalist, TV scriptwriter, award-winning columnist and writer (aka glorified typist).She lives in Cape Town with her husband and daughter.

Awards: BFA (2014), Clarke (2011) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Horror

Novels

   Moxyland (2008)
   Zoo City (2010)
   The Shining Girls (2013)
   Broken Monsters (2014)
   Afterland (2020)
   Bridge (2023)

Collections

Slipping (2016)

Series contributed to

Disorder Collection
3. Ungirls (2019)

Novels of the Marvel Universe
Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire (2024) (with others)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Lauren Beukes

The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2 (2024)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 2)
edited by
Jared Shurin

Cyberpunk in 2020 (2020)

Stories of Hope and Wonder (2020)
In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers

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Awards

	2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel : The Shining Girls
	2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Zoo City

Award nominations

	2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Broken Monsters
	2015 ITW Award for Best Hardcover Novel (nominee) : Broken Monsters
	2014 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Shining Girls
	2013 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : The Shining Girls
	2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Zoo City
	2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Zoo City
	2011 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (nominee) : Zoo City
	2010 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Zoo City

Lauren Beukes recommends

Horror Movie (2024)
Paul Tremblay
"Scarringly good. Tremblay turns horror inside out with characters so complex and painfully human it makes the terrible things that happen even worse."

The Haven (2024)
Fiona Neill
"The Haven is a smart, fierce thriller about an unravelling family, a corrupted utopia, and the wild hearts of teenage girls. I couldn't look away."

The Future (2023)
Naomi Alderman
"Playful, incisive, horribly relevant and surprisingly hopeful, The Future is a thrill ride that's also a powerful manifesto hurtling towards a world where everything might turn out to be okay. A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it."

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (2023)
Wole Talabi
"Fast and sharp as talons, Shigidi is a high-stakes art heist love story with Nigerian gods and demons and some Succession-level corporate politics and Alan Moore-ish deep dives into occult lore and mythologies. If you thought Killmonger was right or loved American Gods and Akata Witch, this one is very much for you."

The Book of the Most Precious Substance (2022)
Sara Gran
"Extravagant, sexy and compelling. I loved it."

A Luminous Republic (2020)
Andrés Barba
"A fever dream of a novel with sharp-as-knives insights; deft and cutting."

Meet Me in the Future (2019)
Kameron Hurley
"Kameron Hurley is ferociously imaginative-with an emphasis on ferocious."

Infinite Detail (2019)
Tim Maughan
"Deft and jolting as an EMP, Infinite Detail is a worryingly credible ghost story about our electronic lives."

Intruders (2018)
Mohale Mashigo
"Subversive and electric and yet achingly familiar."

Autonomous (2017)
Annalee Newitz
"Holy hell. Autnomous is remarkable."

The White Road (2017)
Sarah Lotz
"A ferociously imaginative storyteller."

Zodiac (2016)
Sam Wilson
"A bold storyteller with an amazing mind."

South (2016)
(Divided America, book 1)
Frank Owen
"Dark and beautiful. I loved it."

The Last One (2016)
Alexandra Oliva
"Tense and gorgeous and so damn clever . . . I loved every second."

Ash Remains (2016)
Lily Herne
"Fantastic! Teen-fighting-zombie-fun."

Station Eleven (2014)
Emily St. John Mandel
"Station Eleven is a firework of a novel. Elegantly constructed and packed with explosive beauty, it's full of life and humanity and the aftershock of memory."

Annihilation (2014)
(Southern Reach, book 1)
Jeff VanderMeer
"A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward. I loved it."

Shovel Ready (2014)
(Spademan, book 1)
Adam Sternbergh
"Hardboiled as f*** with writing as fierce and sharp as a paper-cut."

Cormorant (2013)
(Miriam Black, book 3)
Chuck Wendig
"Fast, ferocious, sharp as a switchblade and ****ing fantastic."

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