JOHANNE BILLE
(b. 1993) is a Danish novelist. Originally published by Forlaget Gladiator in 2018, Elastic is her second novel and her first to appear in English. Bille is based in Copenhagen where she is also an editor at Harpyie.
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KRISTINA CARLSON (b. 1949) is a Finnish writer. Her work has won the Finlandia Prize in 1999, the State Prize in Literature, the ‘Tack för boken’ medal, and the English translation of Mr Darwin’s Gardener was longlisted for the DUBLIN literary Award. Both Mr Darwin’s Gardener and Eunuch were nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Works: Eunuch
JONAS EIKA (b. 1991) is one of Denmark’s most exciting writers. Their debut novel, Marie House Warehouse, was awarded the Bodil & Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize for emerging Danish writers in 2016. In 2023, After the Sun was awarded the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, adding to its long list of accolades that also includes winning the Nordic Council Literature Prize and a nomination for the International Booker Prize. Eika lives in Copenhagen.
Works: After the Sun
EMILIO FRAIA was born in São Paulo in 1982. Sevastopol, his third book, was one of the winners of the Biblioteca Nacional Prize and a finalist for the Oceanos Prize and Jabuti Prize. One of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Writers, Fraia has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship and is currently an editor at Companhia das Letras.
Works: Sevastopol
SIGNE GJESSING (b. 1992) is a Danish poet. She studied theology and philosophy and graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing, Forfatterskolen, in 2014. She has published several collections of poetry and a novella, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious Bodil & Jørgen Munch Christensen Prize for emerging writers. Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus is her first work to appear in English.
Works: Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus
IDA MARIE HEDE (b. 1980) is the author of seven books and numerous plays. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and Goldsmiths College and graduated from the School of Creative Writing in Copenhagen in 2008. Hede has taught at Gladiatorskolen, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and is currently a creative writing lecturer at Johan Borup’s Højskole as well as an art critic for Dagbladet Information.
Works: Adorable
JOHANNE LYKKE HOLM is an author and translator. Shortlisted for both the Nordic Council Literary Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature, she is establishing herself among the most promising up-and-coming literary authors in Sweden. She has also translated Yahya Hassan, Josefine Klougart, and Hiromi Itō into Swedish.
Works: Strega
FINE GRÅBØL
(b. 1992) has previously published a collection of poetry, Knoglemarv lavendel (Bone-marrow Lavender, 2018), together with the poetry collective BMS – consisting of Dorte Limkilde, Mette Kierstein, Ronja Johansen, and Gråbøl. Although What Kingdom is based on personal experience, Gråbøl does not consider it auto-fiction.
Works: What Kingdom
ANNE SERRE (b. 1960) is the author of fifteen books, as well as numerous short stories and essays, and the recipient of a 2008 Cino del Duca Foundation award. Her first novel Les Gouvernantes was praised in La Croix for ‘its remarkable economy of style and in Libération as ‘a delightful Sabbath’. From its publication in 1992, till 2000, she worked under a pseudonym as book editor of a leading magazine for women. Serre won the 2020 Goncourt de la nouvelle for her short story collection Au coeur d'un été tout en or (All in the Golden Afternoon). The Beginners (2021) was Serre’s third book to be translated into the English, and A Leopard-Skin Hat her fourth (2024).
Works: A Leopard-Skin Hat
TINE HØEG (b. 1985) is a Danish poet and novelist. Her novel New Passengers won Bogforum’s Debutantpris, the prize awarded each year for the best literary fiction debut published in Denmark. Høeg’s own adaptation of the novel has been staged at the Royal Danish Theatre. She lives in Copenhagen.
Works: New Passengers, Memorial, 29 June
OLGA RAVN (b. 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. Her novel The Employees, translated by Martin Aitken, was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Alongside
Johanne Lykke Holm, she runs the
feminist performance group and writing school Hekseskolen.
Works: The Employees, Tools for Extinction,
URSULA SCAVENIUS is a writer based in Copenhagen. She is a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and holds a Master’s in comparative literature and Italian from the University of Copenhagen. She debuted in 2015 with the short story collection Fjer (Feathers), which won the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize and was nominated for the Montana Prize for Fiction. Her second book, Dukkerne, was published in January 2020 and was shortlisted for the Edvard P. Prize that same year, as was Feathers in 2015.
Works: The Dolls
AMALIE SMITH (b. 1985) is a Danish writer and visual artist. A graduate from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Smith has received numerous awards for work, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s prestigious three year working grant. Thread Ripper is her second novel published in English translation.
Works: Marble, Thread Ripper
HARALD VOETMANN (b. 1978) was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and has written novels, short stories, poetry, and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Awake is the first in his series of three historical novels: the second centres on the sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, and the final book introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram.
Works: Awake, Sublunar, Visions and Temptations (
forthcoming 2024)
DUNCAN WIESE (b. 1991) is a Danish poet and a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing, where he now teaches. His debut Tityrus was shortlisted for the prestigious Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize and the Bogforum Prize for New Writing. He lives in Skovlunde.
Works: Tityrus