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.

[1] 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.

[3] From October 2019 to August 2022,[4] Tidhar, along with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, was the science fiction and fantasy columnist for The Washington Post.

[48] Inspired by authors like Cordwainer Smith, C. L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, Philip K. Dick and Zenna Henderson.