Merete Pryds Helle (b. 1965) is an award-winning and critically acclaimed Danish author, who has been praised for her linguistic finesse and ability to coin human relations in her writing. She has a great passion for travelling and the encounter with other cultures and ways of thinking mark her writing to a high extent. She has written a long list of books in many different genres, from children’s books and YA novels to radio plays, computer games, poems, essays, crime novels and a completely new genre, the sms- and iPad novel which she contributed to creating. She won the prestigious literary prize “The Golden Laurels” for her adult novel, The Beauty of the People.
