Author photo of Karolina Ramqvist. She is wearing a black blazer and a white button down shirt underneath. She has medium length, blond hair that is draped over her left shoulder. She is looking directly at the camera. In the background is a brick wall.

Karolina Ramqvist is one of the most influential writers and feminists of her generation in Sweden. She is widely celebrated for her powerful ability to provoke quiet yet fierce questions rather than provide loud and easy answers. In her skilful hands, contemporary issues of sexuality, commercialization, isolation, and belonging become highly charged and, at the same time, completely unaffected. In 2015 Ramqvist was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel The White City (Grove). The Bear Woman (2019) is her fifth and latest novel.

 
Author photo of Saskia Vogel. She is wearing a black mockneck shirt with sleeves that go to her elbows and black short shorts. She has long dark hair that hangs loosely over her left shoulder. She is sitting on a brick ledge in the middle of a courtyard, turned slightly to the right. She is looking straight at the camera with a serious expression.

Saskia Vogel is a writer and Swedish-to-English translator whose work focuses on feminism, desire, and power. Her debut novel, Permission, was translated into five languages and longlisted for the Believer Book Award. Her translation of Johannes Anyuru’s They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears won the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and she was longlisted for the PEN Translation Award for Jessica Schiefauer’s Girls Lost. Vogel is a recipient of the Berlin Senat grant for non-German literature and of a Swedish Authors’ Fund working grant.