Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter. 2Early life Lauren Beukes was born 5 June 1976. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago. 2Career 3Books 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. The Shining Girls won The Strand Magazine Critic's Best Novel Award, the RT Thriller of the Year, Exclusive Books' Readers Choice Award, and South Africa's most prestigious literary award, The University of Johannesburg Prize. The TV rights for the novel have been acquired by MRC and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way according to The Hollywood Reporte