Stine Pilgaard, born in 1984, is a graduate from the Danish Writer’s School and holds a degree from University of Copenhagen.

Her first novel, According to my mum (2012), which is now in its 8th print-run, was shortlisted for the DR Romanprisen and won her the Bodil and Jørgen Munch Christensens Cultural Award for first novels. The book is sold for publication in Iceland and Norway. Erlend Loe is her Norwegian translator.