Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screeplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller Broken Monsters; The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer; Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir and winner of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award; and the neo-political thriller Moxyland. She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary, and wrote the New York Times bestselling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
"Beukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative
styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the 'urban
fantasy' subgenre back towards its groundbreaking
roots."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's
Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas. (...) Beukes
skillfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir. An ending
that includes a giant crocodile may be more conventional than the
setup, but it's still powerful indeed."--Jeff VanderMeer, The New
York Times Book Review
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