Voetmann, Harald: - Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author Harald Voetmann (b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a trilogy of historical novels: Awake records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder; Sublunar centers on sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; Visions and Temptations introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram.

Ottosen, Johanne Sorgenfri: - Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor.