Annika "Karolina" Virtanen Ramqvist (born 8 November 1976) is a prominent Swedish journalist and best-selling author.

[1] Ramqvist's novels explore "contemporary issues of sexuality, commercialization, isolation and belonging".

[2] The Swedish newspaper Expressen said her fourth novel Den vita staden (published in Swedish in 2015 and later in English translation by Saskia Vogel for Black Cat/Grove Atlantic in 2017[3]) "cemented Karolina Ramqvist's position as one of Sweden's most interesting authors.

Ramqvist has been the editor-in-chief for the magazine Arena and a columnist at Dagens Nyheter.

She became known after she published a private letter from Ulf Lundell in the Swedish feminist anthology Fittstim [sv] (1999).