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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Karin Tidbeck
- 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, followed by the novel Amatka in 2012.
- Her first work in English, the short story collection Jagannath, was published in 2012 by Cheeky Frawg to favorable reviews, with Gary K.
- Wolfe describing Tidbeck as "one of the most distinctive new voices in short fiction since Margo Lanagan".
- 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.
- The English translation of Amatka was published in 2017.
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