Anna-Karin Palm (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish author and multiple award winner for culture writing.

Questions of memory, language, history and identity are important, where realism is combined with fairy tales and allows the distance between places and times to illuminate each other.

In the novels, there is often a strong epic drive, a preference for multiple timelines or narrative voices and a clear awareness of form.

Åsa Beckman wrote in Dagens Nyheter about "a nice portrayal, where Palm shows how the characters get hurt in small and big ways because they didn't really include the body in their self".

Palm talks here about her mother's life and her own upbringing, and reflects on memory, writing, class trips and family relationships.

[4] In 2023, she was appointed to the Royal Swedish Academy to assume seat number 16, a lifetime position, that was vacated with the death of the writer Kjell Espmark.

[1] Palm's books have been translated into English, German, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, Polish, Icelandic and more.