Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics

writer and occasional journalist.

She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in a

fantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Her

previous works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in Cape

Town under corporate apartheid.

She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The

Adventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for Disney

UK and Millimages in France.

Follow her on Twitter: @laurenbeukes

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