Swansea and District Writers’ Circle 70th Aniversary

At the Taliesin Arts Centre, Singleton Campus, Swansea University.

Tuesday September 10th 2024 at 7pm.

Helga Jensen

Helga Jensen is an award-winning Welsh/Danish best-selling author and journalist. Her debut novel was a winning entry in the 2017 Montegrappa First Fiction competition at Dubai’s Emirates Literary Festival. Her debut was also a contender for the coveted 2021 Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Earlier this year, her novel Fly me to Paris was a finalist in the RNA Popular Romantic Novel Award.

Helga’s romantic comedy, A Scandinavian Summer, went straight to number one on the Amazon Kindle charts for Danish travel on its publication day. She has also had subsequent best-sellers.

Each of Helga’s books has a Welsh setting, as she strongly believes that Wales should be promoted in fiction.

Helga holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing, along with a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. She is in the last year of a PhD at Swansea University.

Her talk will range across having Wales as a setting in books, introducing slightly older characters in fiction, the publishing process and how she managed to get her first two-book publishing contract.