Lauren Beukes

South African Novelist

Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She is the author of Zoo City and Moxyland. Her first book, the non-fiction Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa's Past was long-listed for the 2006 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. She has published various short stories in several anthologies. She is the Head Writer for Clockwork Zoo and 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 wrote 12 episodes of the Disney Playhouse show, "Florrie's Dragons".