One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was
born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published
eleven novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals
cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich.
In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the
prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has
been published in 14 countries, and he lives in Oslo.
