Jakob Ejersbo

Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Northern Powers which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty after a ten-month battle with cancer.

Mette Petersen lives in Kgs Lyngby in Denmark where she works for a literary agency and as a translator. Previous translations include My Friend Jesus Christ by Lars Husum.