Karin Tidbeck

Karin Tidbeck is a best-selling Swedish author of weird fiction and fantasy novels. She is a resident of Malmo and works as a translator, freelance writer, and a creative writing teacher. Tidbeck became a published author in 2010 when her collection of short stories Vem är Arvid Pekon? was published. Her first book in English, Jagannath was published in 2012. The short story collection received several positive reviews, and Gary K. Wolfe described Tidbeck as one of the most distinguished authors in a nutshell fiction since Margo Lanagan.