Dawn over the Kalahari : how humans became human

Lasse Berg is a prizewinning writer and film-maker, who has been reporting on the world around us since the mid-1960s.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lund for his work in understanding human societies. Dawn over the Kalahari became an instant best-seller when it was first published ( Gryning över Kalhari in Swedish.

The sequel, Dusk-song over the Kalahari, will appear in Swedish in 2011.

Frank Perry has translated many of Swedens leading writers. His work has won the Swedish Academy prize for the introduction of Swedish culture abroad and the prize of the Writers Guild of Sweden for drama translation.