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Margrét Helgadóttir

Birth place: Ethiopia

12 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
March 2013 |7 Short Fiction The Rescue Luna Station Quarterly, March 2013
December 2014 |4 Short Fiction Daybreak Luna Station Quarterly, December 2014
April 2015 |20 Review The Stars Seem So Far Away Abyss & Apex, 2nd Quarter 2015
July 2015 Review The Stars Seem So Far Away Strange Horizons, 27 July 2015
March 2016 206 Short Fiction The Lottery Winner Luna Station Quarterly, March 2016
March 2016 79 Review The Stars Seem So Far Away Interzone, March-April 2016
April 2017 |20 Review Asian Monsters Mithila Review, April 2017
April 2018 28 Essay Look to Africa Far Horizons, April 2018
June 2021 |3 Review Eurasian Monsters Strange Horizons, 7 June 2021
October 2023 136 Interview Deep Oceans, Vast Skies: A Conversation with Margrét Helgadóttir Clarkesworld, October 2023
November 2024 65 Review Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction ParSec, Autumn 2024
July 2025 |21 Review Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction Abyss & Apex, 3rd Quarter 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2016 British Fantasy Award Best Anthology African Monsters Nominee
2016 British Fantasy Award Best Collection The Stars Seem So Far Away Nominee
2017 British Fantasy Award Best Anthology Asian Monsters Nominee
2018 British Fantasy Award Best Anthology Pacific Monsters Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction Nominee

Born in Ethiopia, she has lived in Senegal and Denmark and now resides in Norway. Her native language is Norwegian, but she writes fiction in English.
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