Kerstin Ekman (born 1933), Swedish writer. Elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978. Left the Academy in 1989 due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, she will stay a passive member for the entirety of her life.

Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna and Dödsklockan) but later went on to psycological and social themes. Among her later works is Mörker och blåbärsris (1947) (set in northern Sweden) and Händelser vid vatten (1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.