Scandinavian Fiction Agency
Scandinavian Fiction Agency offers creative, publishing, and editorial services to clients around the world. We work with literary as well as commercial titles in English and Scandinavian languages.
Between us, we have edited dozens of books, many of which have gone on to be nominated for prestigious prices, and we enjoy a far-reaching international network, working with leading publishers and agents.
The services we offer include:
Scouting services between Scandinavian and English-language territories.
Translation samples from a host of languages, pairing books with suitable translators.
Tailoring book pitches for editors to suit the target market.
Manuscript surgeries, helping authors in their creative processes from idea to completion.
Proofreading and line editing.
Development and translation of press materials and gathering endorsements.
Contact: mail@scandinavianfiction.com.
Photo: Sophie Davidson
About us
Rasmus Meldgaard Harboe (b. 1989) is a writer, journalist, and translator working between English and Scandinavian languages. He is the editor of Scandinavian Fiction and a book editor at Lolli Editions. He holds a BA degree in Creative Writing from Birkbeck School of Art, University of London. He regularly chairs author events and interviews, and he has solid experience in news journalism as well as publicity for various media outlets in the cultural and literary sectors. As a literary scout, Rasmus assesses manuscripts in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and English and keeps himself up to date across all genres.
Denise Rose Hansen (b. 1989) is the publisher of Lolli Editions. She studied Creative Writing with English Literature at the University of Westminster and received her MA in English from the University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in English Literature from UCL, and was an AHRC-funded International Research Fellow at Yale Center for British Art, Yale University in 2019, an Anglo-Danish Scholar in 2020–21, and a Visiting Fellow at the Literary Translation Archive within the British Archive for Contemporary Writing, University of East Anglia, in 2022. As a writer, she is represented by RCW Literary Agency.