Born in 1960 in Gothenburg, Sweden, to Greek and Austrian parents, Aris Fioretos studied at Stockholm, Paris, and Yale universities. Since 1991, he has published over a dozen books — novels, prose poetry, and essays. He has also edited several academic volumes and translated books by Paul Auster, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Vladimir Nabokov among others into Swedish. From 2003 to 2007, he was the counsellor of culture at the Swedish embassy in Berlin. The recepient of several prizes and awards both in Sweden and abroad — most recently from Swedish Academy, the American Academy in Berlin, and All Souls College, Oxford — Fioretos now lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin.