Karin Svensson, producer of the podcast Nobel Prize Conversations, is a Stockholm-based independent arts journalist and radio producer.

After graduating from the University of Gothenburg with a BA in Journalism and Film Studies, she continued her education at Goldsmiths College in London, graduating in 2000 with an MA in Radio Production. She has been a staff writer at the national syndicated press agencies PM and TT, and the newspapers Östgöta-Correspondenten in Linköping and Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm.

As a freelance journalist she has written and reported for a wide range of Scandinavian media outlets, including newspapers Aftonbladet and Aftenposten, national radio stations Sveriges Radio and YLE, and a number of magazines focusing on film, psychology, medicine, history and gender studies. She is also a film critic and has been a board member for the Swedish branch on the international federation of film critics, FIPRECI. In 2006 she was the recipient of the Filmpennan Award for Swedish film journalism (established in 1962).

Her writing and reporting often explore the intersections between cultural expression and the human condition – how the arts reflect and affect history, politics, science and philosophy. She has a particular interest in futurisms and dystopian/utopian narratives and how they help humanity engage with the future.

She has produced the podcast Nobel Prize Conversations – hosted by Nobel Prize Outreach’s Chief Scientific Officer Adam Smith – since May 2021.