Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller and winner of the August Prize. His most recent novel, The Chosen Ones, was awarded the Prix Médicis étranger in 2016. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.
Dr Anna Paterson, an ex-neuroscientist, is a writer and award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English.