Agnes Lidbeck is one of Sweden's most prominent and versatile contemporary writers. She made her literary debut with Supporting Act in 2017, which was shortlisted for the Svenska Dagbladet Prize and won the Borås Tidning Debut Novel Prize. She went on to write Förlåten ('Forgiven', 2018), Gå förlorad ('To be Lost', 2019), Nikes bok ('Nike's Book', 2021), All My Love in 2023 and Fotografens skugga ('The Photographer's Shadow', 2026). Lidbeck also writes for the stage and is known for her sharp, minimalist style.

Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. Her work has been nominated for the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the Bernard Shaw Prize and the National Translation Award. Her translation of Andrzej Tichý's Wretchedness won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She lives in London.