- Lauren Beukes is known for Glitterboys & Ganglands (2011), Shining Girls (2022) and Zoo City. She was previously married to Matthew Brown.
- SpouseMatthew Brown(September 23, 2006 - July 1, 2014) (divorced, 1 child)
- Her fiction has won praise from the likes of Steven King, George R.R. Martin, James Ellroy and Gillian Flynn among others.
- Received the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the August Derleth Award for Best Horror and the Strand Critics Choice Award for Best Mystery Novel.
- Her writing has been translated into twenty-six languages.
- Has a daughter named Keitu.
- Worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago.
- Stories allow us to be more than we are.
- Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. Those who can't imagine the future are doomed to fuck it up.
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