Steffen Jacobsen is an orthopaedic surgeon and consultant. This is his third novel. He was inspired to write When The Dead Awaken by Roberto Saviano's non-fiction book, Gomorrah, about the Camorra and by his travels around Italy. He lives in Denmark.
Charlotte Barslund is the translator of the Inspector Sejer novels by Karin Fossum and of novels by Per Petterson and Carsten Jensen.