Marlaine Delargy lives in Shropshire in the United Kingdom. She was a teacher for over twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson, Viveca Sten, Johan Theorin (with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010), and Henning Mankell (with whom she won the CWA International Dagger in 2018).