Number 10 on the list is South African writer Lauren Beukes. While I'm not familiar with her work, it sounds quite intriguing. Some info on her books from Wikipedia:
She's also a journalist and scriptwriter. While relatively new to the fantasy scene, Beukes seems like she'll have quite a bit of staying power.
Anyone read anything by Lauren Beukes?
She is the author of The Shining Girls, a novel about a time-traveling serial-killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around. The TV rights have been acquired by MRC and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way according to The Hollywood Reporter. [5]
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,[12] and the 2010 Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel.[13] It was short-listed for the 2010 BSFA Award for best novel,[14] the 2011 World Fantasy award for best novel,[15] the 2010-2011 University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize,[16] the M-Net Literary Awards,[17] the Nielsen's Booksellers' Choice Award 2011[18] and long-listed for South Africa's Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011[19] and the 2012 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.[20]
Her first novel was Moxyland, a cyberpunk novel set in a future Cape Town. Both books were first published in South Africa by Jacana Publishing and released internationally by Osprey Publishing's Angry Robot imprint.
She's also a journalist and scriptwriter. While relatively new to the fantasy scene, Beukes seems like she'll have quite a bit of staying power.
Anyone read anything by Lauren Beukes?