| Kārlis Zariņš | |
| Birth Date: | 9 December 1889 |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Period: | 1911 – 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Libau, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Sabile, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Latvian |
| Language: | Latvian |
| Genre: | Novel, short story |
Kārlis Zariņš (December 12, 1889 – December 20, 1978) was a Latvian writer. Zariņš' works are characterised by a focus on the strangeness of life, on the strange characters of people; sometimes mysticism is also found in them.[1]