Gard Sveen
Gard Sveen (b. 1969) made his debut in 2013 with the book The Last Pilgrim. For the debut he won the Riverton Prize, the Glass Key, The Maurits Hansen Best Crime Debut Prize, and the Danish Palle Rosenkranz Prize in 2015. Since then he has written several books. The Bear (2018), the fourth book in the series about police officer Tommy Bergmann, was also nominated for the Riverton Prize.