Biographical note

Johan Rundberg is an award-winning author of children’s books who lives in Stockholm. He has written picture books, early readers, and middle grade. In 2021, he was awarded Sweden’s most prestigious literary prize, the August Prize, in the children’s and YA category for Nattkorpen, the original edition of The Night Raven, the first book in the Moonwind Mysteries series. The Night Raven was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize. Both The Night Raven and its sequel, The Queen of Thieves, were Junior Library Guild selections. Eva Apelqvist has been working as a Swedish translator for more than twenty years. She grew up in Sweden and now lives in Minnesota. She recently translated the young adult novel Fire From the Sky, written by Moa Backe Åstot, which was named a Printz Honor Book (only the second translated book to have received this honor), was short-listed for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize, and was named one of the best young adult books of the year by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. She is also a published children’s author in Sweden.