Aris Fioretos

Aris Fioretos, born in Gothenburg in 1960, is a Swedish writer and translator of Greek-Austrian origin. His works include the novels “The Last Greek,” “Mary,” and “Nelly B.’s Heart,” as well as essays and prose. In 2010, he published an annotated edition of the works of the German-Jewish poet Nelly Sachs, together with a pictorial biography of her. As a translator, he has rendered works by, among others, Paul Auster, Friedrich Hölderlin, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jan Wagner into Swedish. Fioretos has received numerous awards for his writing and translations, including the Kellgren Prize, the Jeanette Schocken Prize, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.