KG Johansson was born in the fifties and grew up with rock music which became an important part of his life; he is Sweden’s first tenured professor in rock and roll. Since 2006 he’s been playing and writing full-time: science fiction, young adult novels, film scripts, opera libretti and music books. He has translated works by authors such as Arthur C Clarke, Samuel R Delany, Ursula K Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Dan Simmons and Neal Stephenson into Swedish. The winner of several awards and short story contests, KG Johansson is one of the foremost authors of speculative fiction in Scandinavia.