Balsam Karam

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

Career
She works at Rinkeby Library in Stockholm and is a member of the Swedish Writers’ Union's library council.

In 2018, she released her first book, Händelsehorisonten (Event Horizon). For the book, she received the Smlits migrantpris in 2021.

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

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.