Silenced

KRISTINA OHLSSON

KRISTINA OHLSSON is a political scientist and until recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism officer at OSCE. She has previously worked at the Swedish Security Service, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish National Defence, where she was a junior expert on the Middle East conflict and the foreign policy of the EU. Her debut novel, Unwanted, was published in Sweden in 2009 to terrific critical acclaim and won a Gold Pocket Award. Kristina lives in Stockholm.

SARAH DEATH has translated works by many writers including Kerstin Ekman, Astrid Lindgren, Sven Lindqvist, Steve Sem-Sandberg and Per Wahlöö. She has twice won the triennial George Bernard Shaw Prize for translation from Swedish, and was awarded the Swedish Academy’s Translation Prize in 2008. She is the editor of Swedish Book Review.