Karin Tidbeck

{{Short description|Swedish writer (born 1977)}}

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Karin Margareta Tidbeck (born 6 April 1977) is a Swedish author of fantasy and weird fiction.

Tidbeck debuted with the short story collection Vem är Arvid Pekon? in 2010,{{cite web|last=VanderMeer|first=Jeff|title=An Overview of International Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2011/04/an-overview-of-international-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2010/|access-date=1 December 2012|website=Locus|date=13 April 2011|archive-date=24 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724012251/http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2011/04/an-overview-of-international-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2010/|url-status=live}} followed by the novel Amatka in 2012. Their first work in English, the short story collection Jagannath, was published in 2012 by Cheeky Frawg to favorable reviews,{{cite magazine|last=Barron|first=Natania|title=Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath: Weird in All the Right Ways|url=https://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/11/jagannath-tidbeck-review/|access-date=1 December 2012|magazine=WIRED|date=9 November 2012|archive-date=27 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127085206/http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/11/jagannath-tidbeck-review/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Cheuse|first=Alan|title='Jagannath' Stories Are Weird In A Good Way|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/31/164055676/book-review-jagannath|access-date=1 December 2012|work=NPR|date=31 October 2012|archive-date=19 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119231805/http://www.npr.org/2012/10/31/164055676/book-review-jagannath|url-status=live}} with Gary K. Wolfe describing Tidbeck as "one of the most distinctive new voices in short fiction since Margo Lanagan".{{cite news|last=Wolfe|first=Gary K.|title=Gary K. Wolfe reviews Karin Tidbeck|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2012/11/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-karin-tidbeck/|access-date=1 December 2012|newspaper=Locus|date=14 November 2012|archive-date=21 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121235945/http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2012/11/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-karin-tidbeck/|url-status=live}} The collection made the shortlist for the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. The short story "Augusta Prima", originally written in Swedish, was translated into English by Tidbeck who won a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award (2013) in the Short Form category.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/08/sff-translation-award-winners/ |title=SF&F Translation Award Winners |work=Locus |author= |date=26 August 2013 |access-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-date=29 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929190614/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/08/sff-translation-award-winners/ |url-status=live}} The English translation of Amatka was published in 2017.

Tidbeck uses the personal pronouns they/them.{{Cite web|last=Tidbeck|first=Karin|date=|title=Press kit|url=https://www.karintidbeck.com/press|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828020943/https://www.karintidbeck.com/press|archive-date=2019-08-28|access-date=2020-12-03|website=|language=en-US}}