Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London. His novel Osama won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's 11/22/63 and George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. His novel A Man Lies Dreaming won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for Central Station.
As of October 2019 Tidhar is a columnist for The Washington Post.
Biography
Tidhar grew up in the communal atmosphere of an Israeli Kibbutz. He began to travel extensively from the age of 15 and incorporates his experiences as a traveller into several of his works.Awards and honours
- 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist for New Atlantis.
- 2020 Xingyun Award, Best Translated Fiction, shortlisted for Central Station.
- 2020 Seiun Award, Best Translated Novel category, shortlisted for A Man Lies Dreaming
- 2019–2020 Fantastic Book Awards, nominated for Candy.
- 2019 CWA Short Story Dagger, shortlisted for "Bag Man".
- 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel nominee, for Unholy Land.
- 2019 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel, for Unholy Land.
- 2019 Premio Kelvin 505, Best Translated Novel nominee, for Central Station.
- 2019 Locus Award, shortlisted for Unholy Land.
- 2019 Kurd Laßwitz Award nominee, Best Foreign Novel, for Central Station.
- 2019 :it:Premio Italia|Premio Italia nominee, Best International Novel, for Central Station.
- 2019 Geffen Award nominee, Best Translated SF Novel, for A Man Lies Dreaming.
- 2019 Kitschies Award nominee, Best Novel, for Unholy Land.
- 2018 Sidwise Award nominee, Long Form, for Unholy Land.
- 2018 The Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction, winner, for Central Station.
- 2018 Geffen Award nominee, Best Translated SF Book, for Central Station.
- 2017 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel winner, for Central Station.
- 2017 Locus Award, shortlisted for Central Station.
- 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, shortlisted for Central Station.
- 2016 Premio Roma, Best Foreign Fiction category, shortlisted for A Man Lies Dreaming.
- 2016 Seiun Award, Best Translated Novel category, shortlisted for The Violent Century.
- 2016 International Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for A Man Lies Dreaming.
- 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winner, for A Man Lies Dreaming.
- 2015 British Fantasy Award nominee, Best Novel, for A Man Lies Dreaming
- 2015 British Fantasy Award nominee, Best Collection, for Black Gods Kiss
- 2015 Gaylactic Spectrum Award nominee, Best Novel, for The Violent Century
- 2015 International Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for The Violent Century.
- 2012 World Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel, for Osama.
- 2012 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novella, for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God.
- 2012 BSFA Award winner, Non-Fiction, for The World SF Blog.
- 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, Best Novel, for Osama.
- 2012 Sidewise Award nominee, Long Form, for Camera Obscura.
- 2012 BSFA Award nominee, Best Novel, for Osama.
- 2012 Kitschies Award nominee, Best Novel, for Osama.
- 2011 World Fantasy Award nominee, Special Award – Non Professional, for the World SF Blog.
- 2011 Sturgeon Award nominee, Best Short Story, for "The Night Train".
- 2011 Airship Award nominee, Best Novel, for Camera Obscura.
- 2011 Geffen Award nominee, Best Novel, for The Tel Aviv Dossier
- 2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award Winner, for the World SF Blog
- 2010 Geffen Award nominee, Best Novel, for Retzach Bidyoni
- 2009 WSFA Small Press Award nominee, Best Short Story, for "Hard Rain at the Fortean Cafe"
- 2006 Geffen Award nominee, Best Short Story, for "Poter Ta'alumot Be'chesed"
- 2003 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition winner, for short story, "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs"
Novels
- The Violent Century, Hodder & Stoughton, 2013 / Tachyon Publications, 2019.
- A Man Lies Dreaming, Hodder & Stoughton, 2014 / Melville House, 2016.
- Central Station, Tachyon Publications, 2016.
- Unholy Land, Tachyon Publications, 2018.
- By Force Alone, Head of Zeus, 2020 / Tor, 2020.
- Candy, Scholastic, 2018, Peachtree, 2020
Others
- The Bookman. Angry Robot Books, 2010.
- Camera Obscura. Angry Robot Books, 2011.
- The Great Game. Angry Robot Books, 2012.
Novellas
- An Occupation of Angels. United Kingdom: Pendragon press 2005. United States: Apex Publications 2010.
- Cloud Permutations. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2010.
- Gorel and The Pot-Bellied God. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2011.
- Jesus & The Eightfold Path. United Kingdom: Immersion Press 2011.
- Lust of the Swastika. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2014.
- The Vanishing Kind. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2016. E-book edition published by Jabberwocky 2018.
- New Atlantis''. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2019. E-book edition published by Jabberwocky 2020.
Collections
- HebrewPunk. United States: Apex Publications. 2007. A collection of four linked short stories re-imagining pulp fantasy in Jewish terms.
- Black Gods Kiss. United Kingdom: PS Publishing. 2015. A collection of five linked short stories related to Tidhar's previous British Fantasy Award-winning novella Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God.
- Terminale Terra. Italy: Future Fiction, 2018. Collection of several SF short stories, in Italian translation.
- Venus in Bloom. Japan: Hal-Con, 2019. Guest of honour collection published to coincide with Hal-Con 2019, collecting several SF short stories, in dual English and Japanese. Illustrated by Masato Hisa.
Comics
- "The Butcher & The Fly-Keeper: A Christmas Love Story", in Murky Depths #6, 2008, 6pp strip with artist Thomas Tuke.
- "Finger", in Murky Depths #10, 2009, 3pp strip with artist Neil Roberts.
- "Mr. Spellman's Last Dance", in Grave Conditions, ed. Scott Nicholson, 2010, 6pp strip with artist Andre Siregar.
- "Mr. Spellman's Holiday", in Murky Depths #13, 2010, 9pp strip with artist Andre Siregar.
- Adolf Hitler's "I Dream of Ants!". United Kingdom: House of Murky Depths, 2012. With artist Neil Struthers.
- A Man Named Wolf. Hodder & Stoughton 2014. Special promotional comic. With artist Neil Struthers.
- "New Swabia" in Outside. Berlin: Ash Pure and Topics Press, 2017. 10pp strip with artist Sarah Anne Langton.
- Adler #1. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
- Adler #2. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Picture Books
- Going to the Moon. United Kingdom: House of Murky Depths, 2012. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
As editor
The Apex Book of World SF Series
A series of anthologies published since 2009, collecting short stories of international speculative fiction. Tidhar edited the first three volumes, and remained as overall Series Editor from the fourth volume.- The Apex Book of World SF. United States: Apex Publications. 2009.
- The Apex Book of World SF 2. United States: Apex Publications. 2012.
- The Apex Book of World SF 3. United States: Apex Publications. 2014.
- The Apex Book of World SF 4. United States: Apex Publications, 2015. Edited by Mahvesh Murad.
- The Apex Book of World SF 5. United States: Apex Publications, 2018. Edited by Cristina Jurado.
Jews vs... Series
- Jews vs Zombies. With Rebecca Levene. United Kingdom: Jurassic London, 2015.
- Jews vs Aliens. With Rebecca Levene. United Kingdom: Jurassic London, 2015.
Other
- A Dick & Jane Primer for Adults. United Kingdom: British Fantasy Society Publications, 2008
Short stories
Selected anthologies
- "The Drowned Celestrial" – Old Venus, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Bantam 2015
- "Dark Continents" – We See a Different Frontier, 2013, Futurefire Net Publishing; honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 31st edition, ed. Gardner Dozois, 2013
- "The Night Train" – Strange Horizons, 2010. Reprinted in both Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection and in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5.
- "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" – Fantasy Magazine 2010. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection
- "The Integrity of the Chain" – Fantasy Magazine, 2009. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Seventh Annual Collection
- "Set Down This" – Phantom, edited by Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay, Prime Books 2009
- "One Day, Soon" – Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Comics 2009
- "Shira" – The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, Del Rey 2008
- "My travels with Al-Qaeda" – Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press 2006
- "Bophuthatswana" – Glorifying Terrorism, edited by Farah Mendlesohn, 2007
Selected stories in online magazines
- "Svalbard", PuzzleTales.com, 2019
- "Gubbinal", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2018
- "Yiwu", A Tor.com Original, 2018
- "Terminal", A Tor.Com Original, 2015
- "Spider's Moon", Futurismic, 2009
- "304, Adolf Hitler Strasse", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2006
- "The Dope Fiend", Sci Fiction, 2005
The "Central Station" story cycle
- "Under the Eaves", Robots: The Recent A.I., 2012
- "Robotnik", Dark Faith II, 2012
- The Smell of Orange Groves, Clarkesworld, 2011
- "Crabapple", Daily Science Fiction, 2013
- The Lord of Discarded Things, Strange Horizons, 2012
- "Filaments", Interzone, 2013
- Strigoi. Interzone, 2012
- "The Book Seller". Interzone, 2013
- "The God Artist", unpublished as of 2013
- "The Core", Interzone, 2013
- "The Birthing Clinics", unpublished as of 2013
Short fiction
Non-Fiction
- Art and War. Co-written with Shimon Adaf. United Kingdom: Repeater Books, 2016.
Critical studies and reviews of Tidhar's work
- Morgan, Glyn. "Reimagining Horror: The Plot Against America, Farthing, A Man Lies Dreaming, and J ", in Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust, Bloomsbury Academic Press.
- McFarlane, Anna. "Time and Affect After 9/11: Lavie Tidhar's Osama: A Novel". In Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction, ed. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel, Liverpool University Press.