Tor Åge Bringsværd (1939-2025) was one of Norway's most productive and versatile authors and playwrights. Since his debut in 1967, Bringsværd has written over 350 books for adults and children in many different literary genres; novels, short stories, drama, picture books, fables, science fiction, essays, anthologies, general non-fiction and textbooks.

Bringsværd's work is critically acclaimed and earned a number of prestigious prizes, such as the Critics' Prize, the Riverton Prize, the Aschehoug Prize, the Dobloug Prize, the National Language Prize and the Ibsen Prize. In 2024, Tor Åge Bringsværd was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

From the eulogy, written by senior editor Anders Heger:

Tor Åge has cycled over the hill.

That was the expression he himself used: Unsentimental, but poetic and warm – as his entire work was. Tor Åge Bringsværd leaves behind a literary life's work so great that it's difficult to grasp how it can be contained in a single author's life; it counts hundreds of titles in all genres – plays, children's books, novels and short stories, religious history, comics, picture books, TV and film scripts.

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Bringsværd was also a great communicator of religion, myths and fairy tales. His books on Norse mythology are a standard work, and his many books on other cultures' imaginary world have made countless readers aware of the richness of what he himself called "the adventurous" in the world.

A literary giant has passed away.