title: Ninna Tersman
text: # Ninna Tersman
  
  Ninna Tersman is a Swedish playwright, dramaturg and translator. She has written more than twenty plays, and has won the Critic's Prize for Best Production of the Year, and the Adam NZ Play Award.
  
  ## Work
  
  Tersman has written more than twenty plays. She also translates plays from Swedish to English. She has worked as a literary manager and dramaturg at the National Swedish Touring Theatre in Sweden. She has lived in Auckland, Sydney and Stockholm.
  
  ## Awards
  
  In 2008 Tersman's play Fucking Parasites won the inaugural Adam NZ Play Award. The play, about two teenagers in an asylum seeker processing centre, was workshopped at the Pacific Playhouse in London, directed by Lorae Parry with script advisor Tanika Gupta. The play was then published as Parasites by Currency Press in Australia in 2017.
  
  In 2012 Tersman won the Critic's Prize for Best Production of the Year for the play When Winter Stars Shine Down on Us.
  
  