Lauren Beukes
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 Lauren Beukes at the launch of Moxyland in 2008. |
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| Born | 5 June 1976 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | South African |
| Period | (2005–present) |
| Genres | Science Fiction Literary Fiction Non-Fiction |
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Lauren Beukes (born on 5 June 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and her daughter.
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[edit] Books
She is the author of Zoo City, a hardboiled thriller about crime, magic, the music industry, refugees and redemption set in a re-imagined Johannesburg. Zoo City won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award,[1] and the 2010 Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel.[2] It was short-listed for the 2010 BSFA Award for best novel, [3], the 2011 World Fantasy award for best novel, [4] the 2010-2011 University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize,[5] the M-Net Literary Awards, [6] the Nielsen's Booksellers' Choice Award 2011[7]and long-listed for South Africa's Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011. [8] The cover artwork received the 2010 BSFA award for best art.[9].
Her first novel was Moxyland, a speculative science fiction novel set in a future Cape Town. Both books were first published in South Africa by Jacana Publishing and released internationally by Osprey Publishing's Angry Robot imprint.
Her first book, the non-fiction Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa's Past (Oshun 2005) was long-listed for the 2006 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
She has published short stories in several anthologies including "Further Conflicts" (NewCon Press 2011), Home Away (Zebra 2010), Touch: Stories of Contact (Zebra 2009), Open: Erotic Stories from South African Women Writers [10] (Oshun 2008), FAB (Umuzi 2007), African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa (New Africa Books 2005), 180 Degrees: New Fiction By South African Women Writers (Oshun 2006), and Urban 03 (New Africa Books 2005).
[edit] Journalism
As a journalist, her articles have been published in a wide range of 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 .
She won Best Columnist Western Cape in the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards in 2007 [11] and 2008.[12]
[edit] Television
As head writer for Clockwork Zoo, she was part of the development team that created South Africa's first half-hour animated TV series, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika and wrote 12 episodes of the Disney Playhouse show, "Florrie's Dragons" [13] for Wish Films
She was also one of the writers, together with Ben Trovato and Tumiso Tsukudu on the pilot of controversial ZA News,[14] a Spitting Image-style satire show with puppets based on the work of South African cartoonist, Zapiro. The pilot was commissioned by the SABC but never broadcast.[15]
[edit] Bibliography
- Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa's Past (2005)
- Moxyland (2008)
- Zoo City (2010)
[edit] Short fiction
Beukes has published short fiction in various collections:
- Urban '03 (2004)
- African Road: New Writing from South Africa (2005)
- 180 Degrees: New Fiction By South African Women Writers (2006)
- FAB (2007)
- Open: Erotic Stories from South African Women Writers (2008)
- Touch: Stories of Contact (2009)
- Home Away: 24 Hours, 24 Cities, 24 Authors (2010)
- Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ "Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_clarke_index.asp. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
- ^ The Kitschies 2010 Red Tentacle Winner on Pornokitsch, 2 February 2011
- ^ BSFA 2010 Awards Short-List Announced on BSFA.co.uk, 17 January 2011
- ^ Locus Online News - World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners on LocusMag.com, 28 July 2011
- ^ The 2010/2011 University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize Shortlists on BooksLive.co.za, 14 April 2011
- ^ M-Net Literary Awards Shortlist 2011 on MNetCorporate.co.za, 9 June 2011
- ^ Nielsen Announces The Bookseller's Choice Award 2011 shortlist on Nielsen Book Data, 4 July 2011
- ^ Longlist: The Fiction Prize on TimesLive.co.za, 7 May 2011
- ^ Del (26 April 2011). "BSFA Award 2010 - Winners". Matrix (BSFA). http://www.bsfa.co.uk/MatrixNews/tabid/108/smid/551/ArticleID/246/reftab/36/t/BSFA-Award-2010---Winners/Default.aspx. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- ^ SA Women dip their pens in saucy ink in the Mail & Guardian, 4 April 2008
- ^ Who will be Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2007? on BizCommunity, 2 November 2007
- ^ Vodacom Journalist of the Year on The Media Online, 10 October 2008
- ^ Florrie's Dragons on IMDB
- ^ Z-News on IMDB
- ^ The show SABC wouldn't let you see in the Mail & Guardian, 27 May 2009
