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Lauren Beukes is a South African writer, journalist, and author born in Johannesburg in 1976. She is educated at the University of Cape Town and writes in English. Her work is associated with the science fiction genre and the Afrofuturism movement. Beukes began her work period in 2005.
She has received the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her works have been nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, BSFA Award for Best Novel, and World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her notable works include Ignota, Wastelands 2, And Also!, זוהרות, and Jessica Jones.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Open Library. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Lauren Beukes is referenced by 83 other articles, and connects out to MRC, South Africa and Johannesburg.
It is catalogued under topics including 1976 births, 21st-century screenwriters and 21st-century South African journalists.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Ignota
- Wastelands 2
- And Also!
- זוהרות
- Jessica Jones
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lauren
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Johannesburg
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- University of Cape Town
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Eye colour
- blue
- Hair colour
- brown hair
- Genre
- science fiction
- Movement
- Afrofuturism
- Official website
- laurenbeukes.com
- Image
- Lauren Beukes, dConstruct 2012 - 2 cropped.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1976-06-05
- Commons category
- Lauren Beukes
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- name in native language
- Lauren Beukes
- ethnic group
- African people
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