• JOHANNES ANYURU, the son of a Ugandan father and a Swedish mother, is a novelist and poet. A • Storm Blew in from Paradise enjoyed immense success in Sweden and was awarded two major Swedish literature prizes • Sold over 40,000 copies in Sweden, and many more copies sold worldwide • Translation rights for his work have sold in 12 countries. US rights for his newest book The Rabbit Yard were sold to Two Lines Press • Anyuru’s new book The Rabbit Yard will be published by Two Lines Press in 2019. A movie based on The Rabbit Yard is scheduled to premiere in 2019, so Anyuru will enjoy a moment. We will time our publication accordingly. • The novel A Storm Blew in from Paradise is based on Anyuru’s own father’s fate • The translator Rachel Willson-Broyles is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and will help promote the book • “Anyuru's searingly poetic style rescues his writing from bleakness and sentimentality alike as he confronts the lies we live by. ‘I don't want to escape history but life. I want the wind to have brought us out of nowhere and I wish we were on our way to another nowhere...That the homeland is a lie. That our homeland is... merely hours, seconds, instants, that there is no origin.’” The Independent, UK