Matthew Turner was born in Greytown, New Zealand, in 1961. He was educated at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where he gained a BA (Hons) in Japanese, and at Nagoya University and Keio University in Japan. He enjoys listening to jazz music and traveling on foot, and occasionally writes about these and other subjects at www.thewalkingfool.blogspot.com. SWEDEN is his first novel.
