Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist born in 1986, who also works as a translator and has written literary criticism for Politiken and other Danish publications. She won Denmark's Beatrice Prize in 2019, and her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Her novel The Wax Child, set in 17th-century Denmark, follows a noblewoman accused of witchcraft as seen through the eyes of a wax doll, and it was longlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize.