Lina Wolff (Author) Lina Wolff is the author of five novels and one collection of short fiction. Her most recent novel, The Corpses We Planted, won the August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honour, making Wolff only the third writer in history to receive that award twice. Her work has won many other awards, including the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Aftonbladet Literature Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. In 2026 she was awarded a Swedish Royal Medal (Litteris et Artibus) for her contributions to literature.Lina Wolff is also a literary translator and has translated the work of Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Samanta Schweblin, Cesar Aira and others. She was born and grew up in southern Sweden.Frank Perry (Translator) Frank Perry has translated many of Sweden’s leading writers across fiction, poetry and drama. His work has been awarded prizes by the Swedish Academy and the Writers Guild of Sweden as well as the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Bernard Shaw Prize.

Furiously entertaining and ingenious, Lina Wolff elicits laughter from the depths of despair

Lina Wolff (Author) Lina Wolff is the author of five novels and one collection of short fiction. Her most recent novel, The Corpses We Planted, won the August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honour, making Wolff only the third writer in history to receive that award twice. Her work has won many other awards, including the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Aftonbladet Literature Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. In 2026 she was awarded a Swedish Royal Medal (Litteris et Artibus) for her contributions to literature.Lina Wolff is also a literary translator and has translated the work of Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Samanta Schweblin, Cesar Aira and others. She was born and grew up in southern Sweden.Frank Perry (Translator) Frank Perry has translated many of Sweden’s leading writers across fiction, poetry and drama. His work has been awarded prizes by the Swedish Academy and the Writers Guild of Sweden as well as the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Bernard Shaw Prize.

Furiously entertaining and ingenious, Lina Wolff elicits laughter from the depths of despair

Lina Wolff (Author) Lina Wolff is the author of five novels and one collection of short fiction. Her most recent novel, The Corpses We Planted, won the August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honour, making Wolff only the third writer in history to receive that award twice. Her work has won many other awards, including the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Aftonbladet Literature Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. In 2026 she was awarded a Swedish Royal Medal (Litteris et Artibus) for her contributions to literature.Lina Wolff is also a literary translator and has translated the work of Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Samanta Schweblin, Cesar Aira and others. She was born and grew up in southern Sweden.Frank Perry (Translator) Frank Perry has translated many of Sweden’s leading writers across fiction, poetry and drama. His work has been awarded prizes by the Swedish Academy and the Writers Guild of Sweden as well as the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Bernard Shaw Prize.

Furiously entertaining and ingenious, Lina Wolff elicits laughter from the depths of despair