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Karin Tidbeck

Sweden

Karin Tidbeck is originally from Stockholm, Sweden. She lives and works in Malmö as a freelance writer, translator and creative writing teacher, and writes fiction in Swedish and English. She debuted in 2010 with the Swedish short story collection Vem är Arvid Pekon?. Her English debut, the 2012 collection Jagannath, was awarded the Crawford Award 2013 and shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Her novel debut, Amatka, will be out in English in 2017.

She devotes her spare time to forteana, subversive cross-stitching and Nordic LARP.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Novels

Amatka (2017)
The Memory Theater (2021)

Collections

Jagannath (2012)

Novellas and Short Stories

Reindeer Mountain (2016)

Series contributed to

Tor.Com Original
   Sing (2013)
   Listen (2016)
   The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir (2019)

Books containing stories by Karin Tidbeck

New Adventures in Space Opera (2024)
edited by
Jonathan Strahan

Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird (2023)
edited by
Jonathan Maberry

Nordic Visions (2023)
The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction
edited by
Margrét Helgadóttir

More books

Award nominations

	2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir
	2018 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Amatka
	2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Moonstruck
	2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Jagannath
	2013 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Jagannath

Karin Tidbeck recommends

The Outside (2019)
(Outside , book 1)
Ada Hoffmann
"A fresh and mind-bending mix of cosmic horror and space opera."

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