We are thrilled to welcome a stellar delegation of writers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland to AWF this year.

You’ll see them appearing across the Festival, but this is your chance to meet the full cohort.

From Norway: author of the bestselling Norwegian Wood; The Sister Bells Trilogy and Norwegian National Booksellers’ Award winner, Lars Mytting, and winner of Norway’s biggest literary prize and the PEN Translation Prize, Hanne Ørstavik (Love, Ti Amo; Stay With Me).

From Sweden: Sámi journalist and writer, and recipient of Sweden’s most distinguished literary prize, Elin Anna Labba, and author-illustrator duo of bestselling children’s series The Pinchers, Anders Sparring and Per Gustavsson.

From Denmark: award-winning novelist and essayist Mathilde Walter Clark, whose work includes Lone Star and A Blind Eye, which swept the Danish award circuit.

From Finland: “King of Helsinki Noir” and “the funniest writer in Europe” (The Times) known for his dark and funny thrillers, Antti Tuomainen.