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 ranged 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.