Author
Carsten Jensen
Danish author Carsten Jensen’s international bestselling novel We, the Drowned has been published in more than twenty countries and sold more than half a million copies worldwide. He has also written several critically acclaimed travelogues, including I Have Seen the World Begin, which won the Golden Laurel, the most coveted literary prize in Denmark. Jensen has reported on war in the Balkans and Afghanistan, the atrocities committed, and the political motivation behind Danish presence in these war zones, and he was awarded the prestigious Olof Palme Prize for his “work, in word and deed, to defend the weak and vulnerable as well in his own country as around the world.”
Mark Mussari has his PhD in Scandinavian languages and literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has translated Danish novels, short stories, and nonfiction, including Dan Turèll’s seminal crime novel, Murder in the Dark. A scholar of Danish literature, art, and design, he is also the author of Danish Modern: Between Art and Design and numerous educational books on subjects including Haruki Murakami, Amy Tan, Shakespeare’s Othello and sonnets, and popular culture.