Lauren Beukes

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Lauren Beukes has earned a reputation as one of South Africa's most inventive novelists. Her Arthur C. Clarke Award win for Zoo City put her on the international map, and The Shining Girls became a global bestseller, adapted into a major streaming series. She has been praised for her ability to blend genres and tackle social issues with originality and depth.

AwardsLauren Beukes has won several major awards for her fiction. Her novel Zoo City earned the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2011. The Shining Girls took home the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel in 2014. Broken Monsters received the RUSA Adrenaline Award in 2015.

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First South African woman to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award

Awards·2011

Beukes won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Zoo City, making her the first South African woman to receive the honor.