Maria Navarro Skaranger (b. 1994) is one of the most distinctive and original writers of her generation. Skaranger has won the EU Prize for Literature (2020) and the Oktober Prize (2021), and for Emily Forever (2021) she was nominated for the Booksellers’ Prize, the Critics’ Prize and the Young People’s Critics’ Prize. Her third novel, Whistling in the Dark Wind (2023), was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2022, Skaranger was awarded the Sult Prize for her body of work.