Balsam Karam

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Balsam Karam (born 29 July 1983) is a Swedish writer and librarian of Iranian Kurdish descent. [1] [2]

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Career

She works at Rinkeby Library in Stockholm and is a member of the Swedish Writers’ Union's library council. [3] [4] [5]

In 2018, she released her first book, Händelsehorisonten (Event Horizon). [6] [7] [8] [9] For the book, she received the Smlits migrantpris in 2021. [10]

In 2021, she released her second book, Singulariteten (The Singularity). [11] [12] The book was shortlisted for the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature. [13]

Personal life

Born in Teheran, in Iran, in 1983, her family moved to Sweden when she was seven. She studied at Biskops Arnös författarskola before doing a master's degree at the University of Gothenburg. [14]

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