Happy birthday to the awesome Lauren Beukes
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An internationally award-winning and bestselling South African writer Lauren Beukes’s followed her first book, the non-fiction Maverick: Extraordinary Women from South Africa’s Past (2006), with the novel Moxyland (2008). Her next three novels, the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Zoo City (2010), the British Fantasy Award-winner The Shining Girls (2013), and Broken Monsters (2014) garnered Beukes worldwide notice.
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Her graphic novel work includes Vertigo’s Survivor’s Club, the Fables spin-off Fairest, and Wonder Woman. Beukes’s nonfiction has been published in numerous magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, The Sunday Times, Marie Claire, and Elle.
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Many of Beukes’s short stories were collected in the acclaimed SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING. Among her other works are The Bostik Book of Unbelievable Beasties, made up of ridiculous rhymes with illustrations by kids in South Africa, and the Beukes’ directed, award-winning documentaryGlitterboys & Ganglands, about Cape Town’s biggest female impersonation beauty pageant.
All of us at Tachyon wish the sensational Lauren a happy birthday. May you avoid any time travel conundrums.
For more information about SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Clara Bacou
Design by Elizabeth Story