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Quynh Tran Author

Quynh Tran (b. 1989) grew up in Jakobstad in Finnish Ostrobothnia. He now resides in Malmöwhere he works as a psychologist. Tran is a graduate of the acclaimed Biskops Arnö Writing School. His debut novel Shade and Breeze was awarded the prestigious Runeberg Prize, the Svenska Yle’s Literature Prize, and the Borås Tidning’s Debutant Prize. Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator working between Swedish and English. Her work has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and regularly writes on US events and politics in the Swedish press.