The Carrier

About the Author and the Translator

MATTIAS BERG is a cultural journalist based in Stockholm. After working at major newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter and Expressen, he joined Swedish Radio in 2002, where he was the head of the culture department for a decade. He has written two works of non-fiction on technology and culture; one about the early Japanese information society, and one about the cloned sheep Dolly and biotechnology’s dreams of creating artificial life. The Carrier is his first novel.

GEORGE GOULDING was born in Stockholm, educated in England, and spent his legal career working for a London-based law firm. He is now a translator of Swedish literature into English, including David Lagercrantz’s continuations of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson.