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, with the novel MOXYLAND. Her next three novels, the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner ZOO CITY, the British Fantasy Award-winner THE SHINING GIRLS, and BROKEN MONSTERS (2014) garnered Beukes overwhelming acclaim.
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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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Last year saw the publication of Beukes’s acclaimed collection SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING and THE BOSTIK BOOK OF UNBELIEVABLE BEASTIES, made up of ridiculous rhymes with illustrations by kids in South Africa.
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All of us at Tachyon wish the sensational Lauren a happy birthday. May it not be filled with too many 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