Lars Mytting

Lars Mytting was born in Fåvang in Gudbrandsdalen in 1968 and made his debut with the novel Horsepower (Hestekrefter) in 2006. Norwegian Wood (Hel ved, 2011) became an international bestseller and won the British Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 2016. In 2014, he received the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize for the novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Svøm med dem som drukner), which has been published in 17 languages and appeared on The Times' bestseller list. In 2018, The Bell in the Lake (Søsterklokkene), the first book in the Sister Bells trilogy, set to Gudbrandsdalen, was published. It was followed by The Reindeer Hunters (Hekneveven) in 2020, and in 2023, The Night of the Scourge (Skråpånatta), the final installment, was published. Mytting's books have sold over one million copies worldwide and have been published in 23 languages. 

In 2022, he was awarded the Dobloug Prize.