Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs: Winner of the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

About Lina Wolff

Lina Wolff has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid she began to write her short story collection Manga manniskor dor som du ('Many People Die Like You'; Albert Bonniers Forlag 2009). Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs her first novel was awarded the prestigious Vi Magazine Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio Award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives in southern Sweden. Her second novel De polyglotta alskarna ('The Polyglot Lovers') is forthcoming from Albert Bonniers Forlag in 2016. ------- Frank Perry has translated the work of many of Sweden's leading writers. His work has won the Swedish Academy prize for the introduction of Swedish literature abroad and the prize of the Writers Guild of Sweden for drama translation. His translation of Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs won the 2017 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the 2019 Bernard Shaw Prize.