Lauren Beukes
| Lauren Beukes | |
|---|---|
| File:Lauren Beukes.jpg Lauren Beukes at the launch of Moxyland in 2008. | |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | South African |
| Period | (2005-present) |
| Genres | Science Fiction Literary Fiction Non-Fiction |
| Official website | |
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.
Books
She is the author of Moxyland, a speculative science fiction novel set in a future Cape Town, first published in South Africa by Jacana Publishing in 2008 and released internationally by HarperCollins' Angry Robot imprint in 2009.
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 Touch: Stories of Contact (Zebra 2009), Open: Erotic Stories from South African Women Writers [1] (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)
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 [2] and 2008 [3].
Television
As a scriptwriter, she was part of the development team that created South Africa's first half-hour animated TV series, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika.
She was also one of the writers, together with Ben Trovato and Tumiso Tsukudu on the pilot of controversial Z-News[4], 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[5].
Bibliography
Short fiction
Beukes has published short fiction in various collections:
- Urban '03 (2005)
- 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)
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Z-News on IMDB
- ↑ The show SABC wouldn't let you see in the Mail & Guardian, 27 May 2009