Lauren Beukes
- January 10, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Lauren Beukes |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Date Of Birth | Jun 5, 1976(1976-06-05) |
| Age | 48 |
| Birthplace | Johannesburg |
| Country | South Africa |
| Birth City | Gauteng |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Lauren Beukes Biography
| Name | Lauren Beukes |
| Birthday | Jun 5 |
| Birth Year | 1976 |
| Place Of Birth | Johannesburg |
| Home Town | Gauteng |
| Birth Country | South Africa |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Spouse | Matthew Brown |
Lauren Beukes is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on June 5, 1976 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Lauren Beukes was born 5 June 1976. She was raised within Johannesburg, South Africa. She was a student at the Roedean School in Johannesburg, and holds obtained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She was freelance journalist for 10 years, with two of them working in New York and Chicago.
She has written short stories in various anthologies such as “Further Conflicts” (NewCon Press 2011)”Home Away (Zebra 2010, 2010), Touch: Stories of Contact (Zebra 2009)”Open: Erotic Stories from South African Women Writers (Oshun 2008) FAB (Umuzi 2007), African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa (New Africa Books 2005) 180 Degrees: The New Fiction from South African Women Writers (Oshun 2006) in addition to Urban 03 (New Africa Books 2005).
Beukes made her comics writing debut with “All The Pretty Ponies” in Vertigo’s Strange Adventures one-shot. She also wrote “The Hidden Kingdom”, an arc of Fairest (issues #8–13), a spin-off of Bill Willingham’s Eisner Award-winning Fables series, and a Durham Red story for 2000 AD’s 40th anniversary special issue.
She is the author of The Shining Girls, a novel about a time-traveling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around. It was published on 15 April 2013 by the Umuzi imprint of Random House Struik in South Africa, on 25 April 2013 by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2013 by Mulholland Books in the United States. HarperCollins had won the international rights to the book in a fierce bidding war with several other publishers.
She was awarded “Best Columnist Western Cape” in the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards in 2007 as well as in 2008.
Lauren Beukes Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Lauren Beukes is one of the richest Writer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lauren Beukes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976) is an South African novelist, short story writer, journalist, and TV scriptwriter.
Her first novel is a non-fiction book. Maverick Extraordinary Women of South Africa’s past (Oshun 2004) was a long-list candidate to win the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
Her previous novel, Zoo City, a hardboiled thriller about crime, magic, the music industry, refugees and redemption set in a re-imagined Johannesburg won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the 2010 Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel. It was short-listed for the 2010 BSFA Award for best novel, the 2011 World Fantasy award for best novel, the 2010–2011 University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize, the M-Net Literary Awards, the Nielsen’s Booksellers’ Choice Award 2011 and long-listed for South Africa’s Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011 and the 2012 International Dublin Literary Award. The cover artwork received the 2010 BSFA award for best art. The novel has also been short- listed for the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in France for best foreign novel, best translation by Laurent Philibert-Caillat and best cover by Joey Hi-Fi.
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Who is Lauren Beukes Dating?
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Lauren Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Lauren Beukes celebrates birthday on June 5 of every year.