Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics
writer and occasional journalist.
She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in a
fantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Her
previous works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in Cape
Town under corporate apartheid.
She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The
Adventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for Disney
UK and Millimages in France.
Follow her on Twitter: @laurenbeukes
Photo © Casey Crafford
