Steve Sem-Sandberg is an award-winning Swedish writer, critic, and translator. He is the author of twelve novels and four works of nonfiction. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the August Prize, the Aftonbladet Literary Award, and the De Nios Grand Award, and was a finalist for the prestigious Nordic Council Literary Award on two occasions. His critically acclaimed and powerful novel The Emperor of Lies has been published in more than twenty-five languages. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.