LAUREN BEUKES
IS A MAJOR, MAJOR TALENT
– George RR Martin
ABOUT
Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling South African author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City and Afterland, among other works. Her novels have been published in 24 countries and are being adapted for film and TV. She’s also a comics writer, screenwriter, journalist and documentary maker.
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Signing Books And Talking Growing Up Geeky At Barcelona’s Gigamesh
Science-fiction, fantasy, genre and high concept [books] are a way of exploring reality and [...] hectic social issues in a way that's like a distorting mirror. You look through the mirror and it allows you to see things more clearly [...] It's a way of exploring very real social issues but with a very light [...]
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