Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller which received the August Prize. His most recent novel is The Chosen Ones, which was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in 2014. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.Dr Anna Paterson, an ex-neuroscientist, is now a writer and an award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English Her most recent translations are The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg, a photo-biography of Olof Palme (a Swedish prime minister), and a biography of Dag Hammarskjold, once UN Secretary General.

Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller which received the August Prize. His most recent novel is The Chosen Ones, which was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in 2014. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.Dr Anna Paterson, an ex-neuroscientist, is now a writer and an award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English Her most recent translations are The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg, a photo-biography of Olof Palme (a Swedish prime minister), and a biography of Dag Hammarskjold, once UN Secretary General.

Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller which received the August Prize. His most recent novel is The Chosen Ones, which was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in 2014. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.Dr Anna Paterson, an ex-neuroscientist, is now a writer and an award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English Her most recent translations are The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg, a photo-biography of Olof Palme (a Swedish prime minister), and a biography of Dag Hammarskjold, once UN Secretary General.