Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)
Sample of authors
Egeland, Tom
Norwegian author and journalist, born in Oslo and raised in the suburb of Kalbakken in Groruddalen, where his parents had a couple of shops. One of his forefathers is Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger, who wrote so-called ‘folkedikter’ and was one of the pioneers in Norwegian popular literature. As a young teenager, Egeland was for a short period active in the Christian youth club Heimdal, but he...
Literary figures
David Ash
Gender: Male
An ‘occult’ detective in Great Britain who solves cases with supernatural elements. David Ash, who is the main character in three novels by horror-fiction writer James Herbert, is middle-aged, has thick, untidy hair – partly grey – and blue eyes. He is critical of his superiors, cynical, but despite his successes also insecure, which means that he drinks too much and has problems getting close to...