Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes (born June 5, 1976 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a South African writer .
Life
Lauren Beukes studied Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town . She then worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York . She has been married to television director Matthew Brown since 2006. She has also lived in Cape Town with her husband and daughter since 2006 .
Awards
- 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Zoo City
- The Kitschies for Zoo City in the "Red Tentacle (Novel)" category
- 2014 British Fantasy Award for The Shining Girls in the category "August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel"
bibliography
- Novels
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Moxyland (2008)
- German: Moxyland. Translated by Mechthild Barth. Rowohlt paperback (rororo # 25969), 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-25969-2 .
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Zoo City (2010)
- German: Zoo City. Translated by Judith Reker. Rowohlt Taschenbuch (Rowohlt Polaris), 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-25968-5 .
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The Shining Girls (2013)
- German: Shining Girls. Translated by Karolina Fell. Rowohlt Taschenbuch (Rowohlt Polaris), 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26700-0 .
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Broken Monsters (2014)
- German: Broken Monsters. Translated by Alexandra Hinrichsen. Rowohlt Taschenbuch (Rowohlt Polaris), 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26704-8 .
- Ungirls (2019, short novel)
- Collections
- Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing (2016)
- Short stories
2008:
- Dear Mariana (2008, in: Something Wicked SF and Horror Magazine # 8, November 2008-January 2009 )
2011:
- Ghost Girl (in: Fantasy Magazine, January 2011 )
- Unaccounted (2011, in: Ian Whates (Ed.): Further Conflicts )
- Chislehurst Messiah (2011, in: Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin (Eds.): Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse )
2012:
- Branded (2012, in: Lavie Tidhar (Ed.): The Apex Book of World SF 2 )
- The Green (2012, in: John Joseph Adams (Ed.): Armored )
2013:
- Unathi Battles the Black Hairballs (2013, in: Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall (Eds.): Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond )
2014:
- Slipping (2014, in: Bruce Sterling (Ed.): Twelve Tomorrows )
2015:
- Easy Touch (2015, in: Bahamut, # 1 )
2016:
- Algebra (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Confirm / Ignore (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Dial Tone (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Exhibitionist (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Litmash (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Pop Tarts (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Princess (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Riding with the Dream Patrol (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
- Tankwa-Karoo (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
2019:
- Her Seal Skin Coat (2019, in: Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology )
- Essays
- Moxyland's Stem Cells (2009, in: Lauren Beukes: Moxyland )
- The Story About the Landlord (2012, in: Journey Planet, # 13 )
- Writing the Other (2012, in: Focus, # 58 )
- All the Pretty Corpses ... (2013, in: Lauren Beukes: The Shining Girls )
- Inner City (2016, in: Lauren Beukes: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing )
literature
- John Clute : Beukes, Lauren. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition).
- Maren Keller: On appeal . In: KulturSPIEGEL 2/2014, pp. 22–25
Web links
Commons : Lauren Beukes - album with pictures, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Lauren Beukes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lauren Beukes in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Lauren Beukes in Fantastic Fiction (English)
- Lauren Beukes in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Lauren Beukes in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
- Lauren Beukes in the bibliography of German science fiction ( books , articles )
- Lauren Beukes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Lauren Beukes in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Lauren Beukes , Texts on Free Speculative Fiction Online
- Works by and about Lauren Beukes at Open Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beukes, Lauren |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African writer and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg |