Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author Harald Voetmann (b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a trilogy of historical novels: Awake records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder; Sublunar centers on sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; Visions and Temptations introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor.

"“Reading Voetmann’s books makes me feel so alive. His voice is like no other, his hold on his material masterful.”"

Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author Harald Voetmann (b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a trilogy of historical novels: Awake records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder; Sublunar centers on sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; Visions and Temptations introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor.

"“Reading Voetmann’s books makes me feel so alive. His voice is like no other, his hold on his material masterful.”"

Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author Harald Voetmann (b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a trilogy of historical novels: Awake records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder; Sublunar centers on sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; Visions and Temptations introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor.

"“Reading Voetmann’s books makes me feel so alive. His voice is like no other, his hold on his material masterful.”"