October 28 2025
"The Corpses We Planted" now sold to 7 markets
With its most recent sale to Denmark’s Gads forlag, Lina Wolff’s August Prize-nominated novel The Corpses We Planted has now been sold to seven markets!
Lina Wolff
Lina Wolff was born in Lund, Sweden, and lived for several years in Spain and Italy, where she worked as a translator. She arrived on the literary stage in 2009 with the publication of Many People Die Like You, a collection of short stories set in Spain and the south of Sweden. In 2012, her debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, won the Vi Magazine Literature Prize. In 2016, her second novel, The Polyglot Lovers, won Sweden’s most esteemed literary award, the August Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into seventeen languages. Carnalitywas awarded the prestigious Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 2019.
Lina Wolff’s novels are so well-written /… / Her texts are brutal and complex, yet very nuanced.
Ia Genberg, award-winning author
