# Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar (Hebrew: לביא תדהר; born 16 November 1976) 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 has lived in London. His novel Osama won the 2012 World Fantasy Award—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.
From October 2019 to August 2022, Tidhar, along with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, was the science fiction and fantasy columnist for The Washington Post. Since 2023 he has been writing short animated films for director Nir Yaniv under their shared label, Positronish.

## Biography

Tidhar was born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel's rural north. He began to travel extensively from the age of 15 and incorporates his experiences as a traveler into several of his works.

## Awards and honours

* 2024 BSFA Award nominee, Best Collection, for The Best of World SF: Volume 3.
* 2023 Locus Award nominee, Best SF Novel, for Neom.
* 2023 Dragon Award nominee, Best SF Novel, for Neom.
* 2023 Locus Award nominee, Best Anthology, for The Best of World SF: Volume 2.
* 2022 Locus Award nominee, Best Anthology, for The Best of World SF: Volume 1.
* 2022 Philip K. Dick Award nominee, for The Escapement.
* 2021 Prix ActuSF de l'uchronie winner, for Unholy Land.
* 2021 Prix Planète SF winner, for Unholy Land.
* 2021 British Fantasy Award nominee, Best Fantasy Novel, for By Force Alone.
* 2021 Eugie Award nominee, for "Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law".
* 2021 Chinese Nebula (Xingyun) Award, Best Translated Fiction winner, for Central Station.
* 2020 Stabby Award nominee, Best Short Fiction, for "Judge Dee and The Limits of the Law".
* 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist for New Atlantis.
* 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" (in The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin).
* 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel nominee, for Unholy Land.
* 2019 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel nominee, 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 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 nominee, Best Novel, for Osama.
* 2011 World Fantasy Award nominee, Special Award – Non Professional, for the World SF Blog.
* 2011 Theodore 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 (with Nir Yaniv)
* 2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award Winner, for the World SF Blog
* 2010 Geffen Award nominee, Best Novel, for Retzach Bidyoni (with Nir Yaniv)
* 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"