Noa Yedlin is a bestselling Israeli author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works. Yedlin is also the creator of an award-winning television series based on the original edition of Stockholm, which was published in Israel in 2016.

Jessica Cohen is a renowned literary translator of Israeli works. Her translation of David Grossman's novel A Horse Walks into a Bar received the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, a National Jewish Book Award, and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize.