Lina Wolff


'Lina Wolff is a Swedish novelist and short story writer.
Lina Wolff published her first book Många människor dör som du, a short story collection, in 2009. It was written while she was living in Spain and is set in Spain and Skåne. Wolff is influenced by Spanish language literature and is considered to be a feminist writer.
Her debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, published by And Other Stories in 2016, was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, Sweden's Vi Magazine Literature Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio Award for Best Novel of the Year. Her second novel, The Polyglot Lovers, won Sweden's biggest domestic literary prize, the August Prize, as well as the Svenska Dagbladet Prize, and has been translated into eighteen languages. In 2017, prior to its publication. The Polyglot Lovers won a PEN Translates Award. Her third novel Köttets tid is published in 2019. A collection of short stories in English translation is forthcoming in 2020.
Wolff is also a translator and has translated works by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño to Swedish. She is currently working on a new translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude''.

Background

Lina Wolff grew up in Stångby and Hörby in the south of Sweden.
Wolff has a bachelor's degree in French and Italian, a master's degree in Literature and a master's degree in International Trade from CESMA Business school in Madrid. She has previously been a resident of Spain and Italy where she has worked as an interpreter, translator and commercial agent.
Wolff started writing in 2003 while living in Spain with her then Spanish husband and their son. She currently lives in Skåne in the south of Sweden.

Works