Elisabeth Rynell, born in Stockholm, is a poet and a novelist. Her works include the poetry volumes Night Conversations, Sorrow Winged Songs, Desert Wanderer, and the novels A Tale of Loka and Hohaj.ย Rydall has received several awards including the Swedish Radio Novel Prize in 1998 forย Hohal, the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize in 2007 and the Sara Lidman Prize in 2014.
To Mervas (2002) was a finalist for the August Strindberg Prize and is her first novel to appear in English.