Aase Berg

Aase Berg is a poet, literary critic and translator. She grew up outside Tensta in Stockholm, where she was born in 1967. Her first book, Hos rådjur, was published by Bonnier in 1997, followed by Mörk Materia, a book-length science-fiction prose poem, in 2000. Since then, she has published six more books in Swedish. Her essays on literature and culture have appeared in BLM, Göteborgs-Posten, 00tal, and other periodicals. Recently, Berg was awarded the prestigious Aftonbladets Litteratur Pris.