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Gard Sveen

Gard Sveen is a Norwegian author of crime novels.

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Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian author, best known for her crime novels, who has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.

Lindell worked as a journalist before she became an author. Her first book, Den grønne dagen ("The green day") was published in 1986. One of Lindell's most prominent characters is detective Cato Isaksen.

Lindell was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1998 and the Critics' Prize for the year's best children's or youth literature. In 1999 she received the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen), am annual literature award given to the best Norwegian detective story.

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Ida Kathrine Gravensteen

Ida Kathrine Gravensteen (f. 1988) er rettsmedisiner og forsker. Hun er lidenskapelig opptatt av å tilgjengeliggjøre medisinsk kunnskap og bidra til åpenhet om tabubelagte temaer. I mange år har hun drevet med formidling gjennom et hundretalls podcastepisoder, blant annet i radioprogrammet Abels tårn på NRK P2, gjennom aviskronikker og på sosiale medier. Hva vi levende kan lære av de døde er hennes første bok.

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Katrine Engberg

Katrine Engberg is a Danish crime fiction author and former choreographer, dancer, stage director and actor.
Her debut novel was the novel “Crocodile Guardian” otherwise known as “The Tenant” that she first published in 2016 to widespread popularity. The book became a massive hit among reviewers and readers and got several nominations for a range of prestigious awards. She followed it up with “Blood Moon” an excellent crime novel that the Copenhagen newspaper wrote that crime queens should be shaking in their boots at the upstart soon taking their place. The novel would earn her an author of the year nomination. She would then write her third novel in the series titled “Glasvinge,” which was also a huge success just like her previous two wo

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Herbjørg Wassmo

Herbjørg Wassmo (born Vesterålen, December 6, 1942) is a Norwegian author. She worked as a teacher in northern Norway until her debut as an author. Her debut work was a collection of poems, "Vingeslag" ("Beating of Wings"). Her major breakthrough was her first novel, "Huset med den blinde glassveranda" ("The House with the Blind Glass Porch") in 1981.
Her best known book is Dinas bok (Dina's Book) from 1989. This novel was made into a film with the title "I Am Dina" in 2002, starring Maria Bonnevie and Gérard Depardieu.

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Bernard Minier

Bernard Minier grew up in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. He had a career as a customs official before publishing his first novel, The Frozen Dead, in 2011. The novel has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered critical acclaim as well as several literary prizes in France. Minier lives in the Essonne, south of Paris.
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Anders Roslund

Anders Roslund is a Swedish author and journalist. He is the founder and former head of Kulturnyheterna (Culture News) on SVT, Sweden's national television broadcaster. For many years he worked as a news reporter – specializing in criminal and social issues – and as an Editor-in-chief at Rapport and Aktuellt, the two major News programmes on SVT.

Roslund regularly collaborates with Börge Hellström, and together they make up the writing duo of Roslund & Hellström.

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Jørn Lier Horst

Jorn Lier Horst (born in Bamble, Telemark 1970) is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers.

His series of mystery novels starring chief inspector William Wisting provides a detailed and authentic insight into how criminal cases are investigated and how it affects those involved, whether private or professional. The books represent a simple and accurate picture of the modern Nordic societies and is characterized by political and social commentary subtext.

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Stefan Ahnhem

”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. In school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.

For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.

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Trude Teige

Trude Johanne Teige is a Norwegian journalist and author of crime novels.

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Kate Rhodes

Kate Rhodes is a bestselling UK crime writer. Her latest books are the acclaimed ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES, which have been optioned for TV. Kate has been nominated for the Crime Novel of the Year award and a Library Dagger.

Kate did many different jobs including working as a theatre usherette, a cocktail waitress, and an English tutor at a liberal arts college in Florida. She was born in London but now lives in Cambridge with her husband Dave, and works part-time at Cambridge University, as a creative writing fellow.
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Katie Coyle

Katie Coyle's debut novel VIVIAN APPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD was named one of the forty best YA novels of all time by Rolling Stone, and was followed by a sequel, VIVIAN APPLE NEEDS A MIRACLE. Her short fiction has won the Pushcart Prize, and has been featured in BEST AMERICAN NON-REQUIRED READING, One Story, The Southeast Review, and Critical Quarterly, among others. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, and blogs at katiecoyle.com.

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Agnes Lovise Matre

Agnes Lovise Matre is a Norwegian author. Her first book, a novel about bulimia, was released in 2012.

She teaches at a junior high school, and likes to sing and play the guitar. She is also an avid soccer fan, with FK-Haugesund being the team of choice.

Agnes is married.

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Sigbjørn Mostue

Sigbjørn Mostue is a norwegian editor and author of children's books. His literary debut was in 2005, when the first book in the trilogy of Alvetegnet (which would be something like "The Sign of the Elves" in English) was published. The two following books in the series came in 2006 and 2007. These books are written in some sort of magical realism, where the story take place both in the "real world" and a parallel, fairytale-like world on "the other side", populated by magical creatures. Many of these figures can also be found in norwegian folklore.

His books are popular among norwegian children and teenagers, but have not yet been translated to English. In 2006, the movie rights of Alvetegnet were sold to SF Norway.

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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Icelandic profile for Yrsa Sigurdardottir

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Jørgen Jæger

Jørgen Jæger er en kritikerrost norsk krimforfatter. Som forfatter er han kjent for en serie kriminalromaner med lensmann Ole Vik i rollen som etterforsker. Bøkene er frittstående, men man vil følge dramatiske hendelser i hovedpersonenes liv fra bok til bok.

Han debuterte som kriminalromanforfatter med "Skyggejakten" i 2003. Jægers endelige gjennombrudd kom i 2012 med kriminalroman "Stemmen", hans sjette utgivelse.
Jægers sjette kriminalroman, "Stemmen", hans åttende, "Monster", hans niende, "Fortielsen" og hans tiende, "Guden", ble alle nominert til Bokhandlerprisen i 2012, 2015, 2016 og 2017.
Han har også skrevet kriminalnoveller.

I 2016 ble det solgt hele 130.000 eksemplarer av bøkene hans i Norge.

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Alex Dahl

Half-American, half-Norwegian, Alex Dahl was born in Oslo. She graduated with a B.A. in Russian and German linguistics with International Studies and went on to complete an M.A. in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, followed by an M.S. in Business Management at Bath University. Alex has published short stories in the U.K. and the U.S. She is a serious Francophile and currently lives in both London and Sandefjord. Alex Dahl is translated into eleven languages and was shortlisted for a CWA New Blood Dagger award for The Boy at the Door. The Heart Keeper (2019) is out now in English, Slovak, Polish, and Swedish, with further international translations underway. Playdate was published in Oct 2020 and was a Guardian Thriller of the month p

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Liza Marklund

Scandinavia’s undisputed queen of crime fiction, Liza Marklund is the No. 1 international bestselling author of the Annika Bengtzon series.

Liza Marklund was born in 1962 in the small village of Pålmark, close to the Arctic Circle in Sweden. She is an author, journalist, columnist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She is also co-owner of Piratförlaget, one of Sweden’s most successful publishing houses. Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written eleven novels and two nonfiction books. Liza co-wrote the international bestseller The Postcard Killers with James Patterson, making her the second Swedish author ever to reach No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her crime novels featuring the gutsy reporter Annika Bengtzon have s

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Pascal Engman

Pascal Engman is a former journalist. Affected by the increasingly threatening rhetorics towards journalists in Sweden, he took some time off and travelled to Chile, where he wrote Patrioterna: a dark thriller about what can happen when people begin to act after their vitriolic words on social media.

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Anne Gunn Halvorsen

Author and journalist, based in Oslo. Currently writing the YA-series Royalteen/Halve kongeriket with Randi Fuglehaug. Soon finished with my first non-fiction book for teenagers, titled Ikke vær redd - en overlevelsesguide for unge.

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Unni Lindell

Unni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian author, best known for her crime novels, who has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.

Lindell worked as a journalist before she became an author. Her first book, Den grønne dagen ("The green day") was published in 1986. One of Lindell's most prominent characters is detective Cato Isaksen.

Lindell was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1998 and the Critics' Prize for the year's best children's or youth literature. In 1999 she received the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen), am annual literature award given to the best Norwegian detective story.

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Jørn Lier Horst

Jorn Lier Horst (born in Bamble, Telemark 1970) is a former Senior Investigating Officer at the Norwegian police force. He made his literary debut as a crime writer in 2004 and is considered one of the foremost Nordic crime writers.

His series of mystery novels starring chief inspector William Wisting provides a detailed and authentic insight into how criminal cases are investigated and how it affects those involved, whether private or professional. The books represent a simple and accurate picture of the modern Nordic societies and is characterized by political and social commentary subtext.

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Jo Nesbø

Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.

Series:
* Harry Hole
* Doktor Proktor

For exclusive content about Jo Nesbø and his books, register for the official fan newsletter: https://jonesbo.com/newsletter/

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Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.

He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne” (2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen ”Rea

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Kristina Ohlsson

Kristina Ohlsson is a political scientist and until recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism Officer at OSCE (the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). She has previously worked at the Swedish Security Service, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish National Defense College, where she was a junior expert on the Middle East conflict and the foreign policy of the European Union. Kristina lives in Stockholm.

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Pascal Engman

Pascal Engman is a former journalist. Affected by the increasingly threatening rhetorics towards journalists in Sweden, he took some time off and travelled to Chile, where he wrote Patrioterna: a dark thriller about what can happen when people begin to act after their vitriolic words on social media.

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Ingar Johnsrud

Ingar Johnsrud (b. 1974) is a renowned Norwegian journalist. Johnsrud made his literary debut in 2015 with the thriller Those Who Follow, the first installment in a planned trilogy. He has received massive attention for his sharp eye for detail, rich and innovative plotting, and confident prose. Praised by critics as a writer who will keep readers on the edge of their seats, Johnsrud has positioned himself as one of the rising stars on the Scandinavian crime fiction scene. Ingar Johnsrud lives with his wife and three children in Oslo.

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Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven was born in 1978 in Hardanger, Norway, where she grew up on a small farm. She debuted as an author with a poetry collection in 2005. Since then she has written sixteen books, including children's books, several poetry collections, a novel, and two plays. Her work has been translated into Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish. Among other prizes, she has won both the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize (for the poetry collections Urd and Sickle). Her first crime novel is the prize-winning Everything Is Mine, which has become an international bestseller.

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Anders Hammer

Anders Hammer (f. 1977) er en prisbelønnet journalist som har utgitt fire bøker og laget en rekke dokumentarfilmer.

I 2011 ble han tildelt Fritt Ord-prisen for sin uavhengige og kritiske dekning av krigen i Afghanistan. I 2014 fikk han Den store journalistprisen, to ganger har han mottatt Internasjonal reporters journalistpris. I 2021 ble han nominert til Oscar for beste kortdokumentar med «Do not Split» om protestene i Hongkong.

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Eystein Hanssen

Eystein Hanssen is the author of nine crime and thrillers novels. His books are available in Norway, Sweden and Germany.

The Elli novels are among the most streamed audiobooks in Norway, with all seven titles reaching no. 1. His first two novels were shortlisted for the Norwegian Bookseller’s Award.

As of May 2021 Hanssen has written De ingen savner (2010, German title Totenmaler), Giftstrøm (2011, German title Blutgeld), Triangel (2012), Åtseldyr (2013, German title Knochen), Brennemerket (2015), Jaget (2017), En kort evighet (2019) and also the thrillers Svart landskap (2018) and Kokong (2021) .

A former documentary filmmaker, Eystein Hanssen writes in a visual style. Critics have regularly pointed out the film potential in

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Johan Høst

Johan Høst (b.1971) debuted with the action thriller The Nation’s Gambit in 2022. The book good rave reviews in the press and film rights were sold before publication. The book is the first in a planned trilogy. He works as creative director and copywriter for an advertising agency he founded. He is also a former curling player – and four time Norwegian champion in the sport. Høst was born in Denmark, but moved to Norway as a child. He now lives in Lillehammer with his wife and three adult kids.

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Merete Lien

Merete Lien is a Norwegian author.

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Øystein Morten

Øystein Morten (f. 1973) er religionshistoriker fra universitetet i Oslo og forfatter.

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Øistein Borge

Øistein Borge er en norsk krim- og ungdomsbokforfatter.

Borge arbeidet i en årrekke i film- og reklamebransjen, som regissør, tekstforfatter og kreativ leder. Han har mottatt en lang rekke priser for sine arbeider både i Norge og utlandet, blant disse to gulløver fra reklamefilmfestivalen i Cannes.

Borge har utgitt en serie på tre romaner om ungdomshelten Nino Glass. I 2016 krimdebuterte Borge med sin første bok om Bogart Bull – «Den syvende demonen».

Øistein Borge bor på Mallorca, der han jobber som forfatter på fulltid.

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Espen Skjerven

Espen Skjerven (f. 1974) er født og oppvokst i Oslo. Han bor i Sandnes med ektefelle og to barn.

Skjerven jobber som tingrettsdommer i Sør-Rogaland tingrett. Han er også medlem av dommernes mediegruppe og Konkurranseklagenemnda. Han har bakgrunn som politiadvokat i Økokrim og Kripos og som forretningsadvokat/prosedyreadvokat.

På fritiden er han forfatter. Han har skrevet en krimserie om politimannen Tom Grayston: Slakt (2019), Blod er tykkere enn vann (2021), Kleptokratiet (2022) og Svikere (2024).

Ingenting å skjule (2025) er Skjervens første skjønnlitterære roman. Skjerven opplevde selv å miste håret som barn, og selv om historien er fiktiv, er den inspirert av egne erfaringer.

Med Svikere vant han Sølvkniven for årets beste krimroman. Han b

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Ingunn Aamodt

Ingunn Aamodt (f. 1965) er bosatt på Frogner i Sørum. Hun er utdannet lærer i kunst og håndverk, men har jobbet som forfatter på heltid siden 1998. Hun er en av de tre forfatterne bak grøsserserien Marg&Bein og har også utgitt serien om Marlena Evensen. Ingunn Aamodt vant ARKs barnebokpris 2010 for Dukken.

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Hans Olav Lahlum

Hans Olav Lahlum (born 12 September 1973) is a Norwegian historian, crime author, chess player and organizer, and politician. He has written biographies on Oscar Torp and Haakon Lie, and a history book about all the Presidents of the United States.

On May 22–23, 2013, he was interviewed by VG for 30 hours, 1 minute and 44 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record for the longest interview ever, beating the previous record by over four hours.

Lahlum is an active chess player with a FIDE rating of 2193 as of March 2014, having been an International Arbiter since 2000.

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Kristine Getz

Kristine Getz (f. 1983) er fra Bærum utenfor Oslo. Hun har studert i Dublin, Irland, men er nå bosatt i Denver, Colorado. Hun er kjent for å ha blogget om spiseforstyrrelsen sin. "Hvis jeg forsvinner, ser du meg da?" (2012) er hennes første bok og er en gripende og nådeløst ærlig historie om ti år med spiseforstyrrelser.

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