Lauren Beukes Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award

South African author Lauren Beukes‘ novel Zoo City has won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, awarded to the best science fiction novel of the year published in the UK. This is a sort of huge deal – past winners of the award include Kuzuo Ishiguro, Iain M Banks, and China Mieville.

Beukes was announced winner of the Clarke award last night at a London ceremony and awarded a check for £2011, as well as an engraved bookend.

Also the author of Moxyland, the 2008 novel set in a dystopian Cape Town, Beukes is currently shortlisted for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award, and the 2010 University of Johannesburg Prize for the best creative work in English.

So that’s pretty great.

[Image: Zoo City-themed Bares]

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