One of Sweden’s most exciting young female writers, Mirja Unge was born in 1973. She received the Katapult Award for her critically acclaimed first novel, Det var ur munnarna orden kom [Out of Your Mouth the Words Come], 1998, and in 2000 she published Järnnätter [Anticlockwise]. The same year her novel Motsols [Tide] was shortlisted for the Swedish Radio Award. Amongst her most devoted fans are younger audiences whose problems she deals with in her works (particularly the confusing experiences of young girls growing up). In 2006 she made her playwriting debut with Var är alla [Where is Everyone?], a play about what happens when erotic charge gets out of hand.