Karam, Balsam
Entry updated 23 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1983- ) Iranian-born author, in Sweden from 1990, whose first novel, Händelsehorisonten (2018; trans Saski Vogel as Event Horizon 2026), is set in a Dystopian Near Future world psychotically disruptive to anyone seen as unsupportive; the protagonist, arrested for this form of passive resistance (see Crime and Punishment), chooses a suicidal expedition into a Black Hole over outright execution. The churn of the telling of the tale is arguably intensified by the author's clear awareness of the toolkit of Fantastika as a whole. [JC]
Balsam Karam
born Tehran, Iran: 19 July 1983
works
- Händelsehorisonten (Stockholm, Sweden: Norsteds, 2018) [binding unknown/]
- Event Horizon (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2026) [trans by Saski Vogel of the above: pb/nonpictorial]
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