Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K.Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. Her novel My Work won the Politikens Literature Prize in 2021 and led to changes in the country’s maternity rights. She has also written shorter pieces for the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Granta.

Books by Olga Ravn

The Wax Child

Olga Ravn

One of the most acclaimed novels of 2025: the International Booker prize longlisted tale of witches in seventeenth century Denmark from one of the most exciting writers on the planet

The Employees

Olga Ravn

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees is one of the most beloved and influential science fiction novels of the twenty-first century

A Ghostly Little Book

Helen Oyeyemi, Eliza Clark, Olga Ravn, Roddy Doyle, Tom Crewe

A landmark collection of newly written ghost stories from five of the world's greatest writers