Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama (2011), Seiun nominated The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the Campbell Award, Neukom Prize and Chinese Nebula winning Central Station (2016), Prix Planete SF winner and Locus and Campbell award nominated Unholy Land (2018), British Fantasy Award nominated By Force Alone (2021), Philip K. Dick Award nominated The Escapement (2021), The Hood (2021), Locus Award nominated Neom (2022) and The Circumference of the World (2023).

His literary fiction career began with the highly-regarded Maror (2022) and followed by Adama (2023) and Six Lives (2024). Golgotha is forthcoming in 2025.

As a children’s author he wrote middle-grade novel Candy (2018 UK; as The Candy Mafia 2020 US) and co-wrote The Children’s Book of the Future (2024). He also created the comics mini-series Adler (#1-#5, 2020) and edited The Best of World SF anthology series (2021-2023).

Lavie works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has variously been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, to Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk by Publishers Weekly and to Kurt Vonnegut by Locus.

Lavie’s media appearances have included Channel 4 News, Radio 4, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Ulster and others.

Lavie’s speaking engagements have included a wide range of events, including for the Ministry of Defence, Cambridge University, English PEN, the Singapore Writers Festival and various Guest of Honour appearances in Japan, Poland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, China and elsewhere.

Lavie’s occasional commissions include work for Conde Nast, Braingle/Puzzle Tales, I Speak Machine/Penguin Random House, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum Berlin, New Scientist, Pigeon Studio and SF Studios (film consulting).

Lavie was a regular book columnist for the Washington Post. He also wrote a monthly column for the Vanuatu Daily Post. Additional bylines have appeared in The Independent, The Guardian, Nature, New Scientist, SFX, io9 and others.

He is one-half of animation micro-studio Positronish, where he works on short-form animation series and film.

Lavie is currently a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond, The American International University in London.

Lavie is represented by John Berlyne of the Zeno Literary Agency. For any query, please contact the agency.