Agnes Ravatn is a Norwegian author celebrated for her sharp psychological insight and elegant, suspenseful prose. Her breakthrough novel The Bird Tribunal (2013) became an international bestseller, sold to 21 countries, and was later adapted into a successful stage play. She has since written the acclaimed novels The Seven Doors (2019) and The Guests (2022), works that confirm her position as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Nordic literature.
Anders Bortne is a writer and musician. He has written five acclaimed books and has released eight albums (one of which was even nominated for Album of the Year in Norway).
Anders Røyneberg, known as @arcticgardener, is an agronomist, plant enthusiast and therapist. He is a regular guest on National TV, where he inspires viewers to embrace gardening. Together with Erik Schjerven, he has published the bestsellers Krukkedilla, Livsnyterhagen, Plantebonanza, and Plantelykke, which have been translated into 10 languages.
Anders Totland is an author, social scientist, cook, and journalist. He is an award-winning young adult- and children’s book writer. He has also published several novels, including A Prayer For Jacob Juul and Till Death Do Us Part.
Anne Elvedal is a successful screenwriter and also a trained nurse. She has worked several years in psychiatry. In recent years, she has written horror books for children and young adults to excellent reviews, and last year she released her first psychological thriller, You can call me Jan.
Bjørn Berge is an architect and author. He has published numerous articles and books in Norway on architecture and building ecology. In 2016, he published Nowherelands – so far sold to 22 countries.
Christopher Pahle is an author and screenwriter working across a variety of fields and genres, combining a heartfelt curiosity with propulsive plotting and a satirical bent in his writings. For the TV-series Dumbsday Pahle won the 2024 Best Screenplay award for a Long-Form Series in Cannes. He has previously published four books in the Kass & Tycho series.
Connie Barr is a journalist, author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. She has extensive experience as a host for various news and current affairs programs and has been the editor for one of the country’s most popular entertainment shows for many years (“Hver Gang Vi Møtes”). She has won the Gullruten award for Best Factual and Current Affairs Program and also been nominated several times.
Ellen Krefting is a Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. She has published several books on history of ideas, including Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Gard Paulsen is a Historian and Researcher. He has published several books on the history of technology and science, such as Always Rabid and Building Trust.
Ellen Viste (b. 1973) is a meteorologist and former climate researcher, now working with climate science communication. She has a PhD in meteorology from the University of Bergen.
Espen Ytreberg is a professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. Ytreberg has been a visiting researcher at CNRS-Paris, Université de Paris II and the Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa. He has written several books, his latest a novel about Roald Amundsen.
Gaute Heivoll (b. 1978) made his debut in 2002 and has since written novels, short stories, poetry, and children’s books. He has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Brage Prize in 2010 for his novel Before I Burn, which was sold to twenty countries.
Geir Selbæk has a Phd in Geriatrics from the University of Oslo and is known as Norway’s leading Dementia Professor. His research on aging focuses especially on cognitive impairment and dementia. Selbæk is Head of Research at the National Center for Aging and Health, and was awarded the Dementia Research Award from the National Association for Public Health in 2018. Selbæk is also one of 27 members of the Lancet Commission on dementia.
Gunnar Garfors is a Norwegian traveller, speaker and author who has written seven nonfiction books and had articles published by i.e. The Guardian, Business Insider and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The globetrotter is the first person to have visited every country in the world twice.
Harald Rosenløw Eeg (b. 1970) is a highly acclaimed and awarded author and script writer. Two-time winner of the Norwegian Book Award the Brage Prize, two prestigious debut prizes, and three-time winner of the Ministry of Culture’s Literary Prize for Children and YA. He has a degree in History of Religion from University of Oslo.
Ingebjørg Berg Holm (b. 1980) was nominated for the prestigious Riverton Prize for her debut thriller Stars Over, Darkness Below in 2016. Raging Bear is her third book.
Jacob Weinreich debuted as an author in 2001 and has since written children’s and young adult books, numerous novels, and crime stories, both in book form and as scripts for film and TV. Together with Anders Klarlund, he has published thrillers under the pseudonyms Anna Ekberg, and A.J. Kazinski. The Kazinski’s books are published in twentyfour countries worldwide, and several of them are being adapted for film.
Janne Stigen Drangsholt is a Norwegian writer and academic scholar. Her debut, The Bumblebee Catcher, was published in 2011, but she is best known for her books about the neurotic academic Ingrid Winter. She manages to combine sparkling humor with deep sensitivity.
Jens M. Johansson was born in Stockholm (1971) but grew up in Oslo, where he went on to study journalism, literature, and history of ideas. He has worked as an investigative journalist, music critic, and satirist. He has written several critically acclaimed novels and received a number of awards.
John Kåre Raake is one of Norway’s most successful screenwriters. He won this years Best Screenplay Award for the TV-series The Fortress at Series Mania, a collaboration with Linn Jeanethe Kyed. He was one of two screenwriters behind the films The Wave and The Quake. His first thriller, The Ice, has been sold to 16 countries.
With over 1.7 million copies sold, Jørgen Jæger ranks among Norway’s bestselling crime authors. His series about the highly respected police chief Ole Vik and his adept detective Cecilie Hopen is also an international success with more than 60 international rights sold. Jæger has been nominated five times for the prestigious Norwegian Bookseller Award — a testament to his enduring popularity with both readers and booksellers alike. The book series is also being adapted for television, with a premiere set for 2026.
Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. She has published a number of monographs and research articles on modern European philosophy and is routinely invited to present her scholarship at top-tier universities worldwide. She also writes popular philosophy in English and Norwegian.
Kristoffer Hatteland Endresen is a historian and a journalist, and has worked several years with both writing and teaching. Endresen also holds a degree in political science and has studied literature and language at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen.
Line Nagell Ylvisåker (b. 1982) is a journalist and Chief Editor at Svalbardposten. She has received several awards for her writing from Svalbard. Ylvisåker has published several non fiction books, and a childrens book.
Linka Neuman has published five books so far and sold more than 250 000 books, in eight different countries. Linka knits and designs under the Instagram handle @linka.neumann, where she has more than 150 000 followers. She was also named Winner of the Peoples Choice at the Knit Awards 2024.
Martin Baldysz debuted with the novel Winter Crawings (Vintertrang) in 2013, and is also the author of the historical series Breaking Waves. In 2022, his novel The Cairns was published to critical acclaim. Beyond the shallowswas published in 2024. The Silence Beneath is the first book in his new historical crime series.
Peder Kjøs is one of Norway’s most renowned psychologists. He holds a PhD in psychology, and is a specialist in clinical adult psychology. As a presenter and therapist on national TV and various podcasts, Kjøs has become a household name. He writes for some of the biggest newspapers in Norway, and is a sought-after speaker.
Runa Sommerfelt started @Runastrikk as a knitting diary on Instagram in 2020. She began designing knitting patterns, opened an online store, and published Runa Knits and a knitting journal in 2024. She now has 134,000 followers on Instagram and 46,000 on TikTok.
Siri Helle is an agronomist in organic farming. She occasionally works as a writer and journalist, carpenter assistant, and goat herder. Helle has written several books.
Ståle Wig has a PhD in social anthropology. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Cuba’s market reforms after living in Havana for almost two years. Seven years in the making, Havana Taxie came out to rave reviews. Wig’s first book, The Victor: An unauthorized biography of Jonas Gahr Støre, was published by Kagge Forlag in 2014.
Sverre Henmo was born in Oslo in 1968. He is a sociologist from the University of Oslo. He has written 12 books, several for kids and young adults, and two novels for adults. He’s been awarded the Ministry of Culture’s literature Award.
Terje Bjøranger has worked with honour crimes his whole profesional life. First in child welfare services, then for many years in the police, and for ten years as a prosecutor in the The National Criminal Investigation Service. Bjøranger debuted in 2010 with The Third Sister. His series includes five other titles, all praised for their relevance and sharp social commentary.
Therese Tungen is the principal of Samlaget’s Writers’ School. A former editor at Samlaget and literary critic for Morgenbladet and Klassekampen, she made her acclaimed debut with Once They Were Wolves (2017), followed by Love and What Resembles It (2019), nominated for the 2020 EU Prize for Literature. In 2022, she published the highly praised Turn Around: Edvin’s Book.
Reinertsen Berg is a Journalist and an Author. He was awarded The Brage Prize – best nonficition book in Norway in 2017 – for his debut book Theatre of the World, the history of maps which is an international success, translated to 15 languages.
Tom Egeland (b. 1959) is the author of the bestselling series about archaeologist Bjørn Beltø and a number of standalone crime novels as well as books for YA.. He has sold more than 2 million copies, is translated into 25 languages and has received numerous Norwegian literary prizes.
Tore Kvæven (b. 1969) made his debut in 2011 with Hard Is the Law of My Land. He received the most prestigious literary award Brageprisen in 2018 for his novel When the land darkens. Kvæven works as a school teacher and sheep farmer. In 2022, he received the prestigious Stig Sæterbakken Memorial Award.
Torkil Færø is a general practitioner and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, author, photographer, and globetrotter. His debut book, The Pulse Cure, became a national best seller and has been sold to 8 countries.
Une Cecilie Oksvold is an outdoor enthusiast passionate about highlighting how nature and creativity through knitting can impact mental health, drawing from her own struggles with anxiety and depression. She inspires her over 115 000 Instagram followers (@unececilie) to connect with nature. Knitting has been a therapeutic constant in her life, leading to her latest venture, the book Happy Knits.