Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively though Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since 1955 he has published 30 books of essays, aphorisms, autobiography, documentary prose, travel and reportage, 10 of which are available in English, including: Bench Press, Desert Divers, "Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius, all available from Granta Books. Lindqvist lives in Sweden with his wife and children.