Lena Andersson is a novelist and a columnist for
Svenska Dagbladet. Considered one of Sweden's sharpest contemporary analysts, she writes about politics, society, culture, religion, and other topics. Her fifth novel and English-language debut,
Willful Disregard, was awarded the 2013 August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honor.
Sarah Death is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the UK-based journal
Swedish Book Review. Her translations from the Swedish include Ellen Mattson's
Snow, for which she won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize. She lives and works in Kent, England.