When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.
Karin TidbeckWhat does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot of that has to do with growing up in a patriarchal structure where unemotional intellect (male) is taken more seriously than delving into emotions (female), and gradually freeing myself from those expectations.
Karin TidbeckI don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.
Karin TidbeckWhat I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
Karin TidbeckSome stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small market for them in Sweden and it doesn't really pay either. So, the translation goes both ways. What also factors in is that I have a different voice in English, which means that a straight translation wouldn't be the same as if I'd written it in English originally.
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