Janina Ramirez

Prof. Janina Ramirez is a number one best-selling author, award-winning documentary maker, and cultural historian based at the University of Oxford. With a passion for bringing the past to life, she has written for specialist and non-specialist, young and old readers, across fiction and non-fiction. Her books include Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths that Shaped Europe, Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages Through the Women Written Out of It (Sunday Times No. 1 best-seller, and Waterstones Book of the Month/Year), Goddess (in conjunction with the British Museum), Way of the Waves and Riddle of the Runes (which won the Young Quills Award). Her books have been translated into over 15 languages and are international best-sellers.