Lina Wolff is the author of five novels and one collection of short fiction. Her most recent novel, The Corpses We Planted, won the August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honour, making Wolff only the third writer in history to receive that award twice. Her work has won many other awards, including the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Aftonbladet Literature Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. In 2026 she was awarded a Swedish Royal Medal (Litteris et Artibus) for her contributions to literature.

Lina Wolff is also a literary translator and has translated the work of Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Samanta Schweblin, Cesar Aira and others. She was born and grew up in southern Sweden.