Ann-Helén Laestadius

Ann-Helén Laestadius is an author and journalist from Kiruna, Sweden. She is Sami and of Tornedalian descent, two of Sweden's national minorities. She has written seven YA novels and two children's books and been awarded the prestigious August Prize for Best Young Adult and Children's Novel for Ten and Norrland's Literature Prize. Published in January 2021, Stolen is Laestadius' first adult novel. A national number one bestseller, it has been sold into nineteen territories and has been awarded the Book of the Year. Laestadius has also been awarded the Adlibris Award for best novel, the Your Book Our Choice Prize, given by the Swedish Association for Bookstore Employees, and the Västerbottens-Kuriren Prize. She lives with her family in Solna outside of Stockholm.