Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn was born in Denmark in 1986. She is an author, poet, and literary critic. Her novel The Employees (Ikaros, 2025) was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, and longlisted for the National Book Award and the Dublin Literary Award, while having been translated into 25 countries. Her novel My Work(Ikaros, 2026) won the Politikens Literature Prize 2021 and led to legislative changes regarding maternity leave in Denmark. Her new book, Voksbarnet (The Wax Child, 2023), based on a series of real 17th-century witch trials, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.