Tom Egeland

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Tom Egeland (born July 8, 1959 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian author and journalist .

Life

Born and raised in Oslo, Egeland first worked as a journalist for the Norwegian men's magazine Vi Menn and the newspaper Aftenposten , later as editor (1992–2000) and news manager (2000–2006) in the Oslo editorial team of the Norwegian broadcaster TV 2 . From 2006 he pursued his writing career full-time. His books have been translated into 18 languages.

Literary work

Egeland made his debut in 1988 with the horror novel Stien mot fortiden ( The Path to the Past ), about a modern couple caught in the Norwegian Viking Age .

The breakthrough with the audience came with Sirkelens ende ( Ger . Frevel , Goldmann, 2006), about the discovery of a gold shrine containing a 2000 year old manuscript that was to fundamentally change our understanding of Jesus and Christianity . A few years after the publication of this novel in 2001, reviewers and readers pointed out the great thematic similarities to Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, which appeared two years later (2003). Egeland himself has categorically denied suggestions that Brown plagiarized him in interviews in both Norwegian and international media. Since Sirkelen's end had not yet been translated into English at this point in time, it is now assumed that the similarities between the two novels, although striking, are coincidental and rather indicate that both authors used the same sources in their research.

His novel Ulvenatten from 2005 (German Wolfsnacht , Goldmann, 2007) was filmed in 2008 by Kjell Sundvall .

Egeland has been President of the Rivertonklubben , a literary association of writers, publishers, booksellers and literary scholars , since 2015 . The Society has awarded the Riverton Prize for the best work in criminal literature every year since 1972 . Egeland himself received this award in 2009.

Awards

bibliography

  • Bjørn Beltø series
    • 2001 Sirkelens end (German Frevel , Goldmann, 2006) - Thriller
    • 2007 Paktens voktere ( Eng . The Pact of Guardians , Goldmann, 2008) - Thriller
    • 2009 Lucifers evangelium (German: The Lucifer Gospel , Goldmann, 2011) - Thriller
    • 2012 Nostradamus Testamente (German. The Nostradamus Testament , 2014) - Thriller
    • 2014 The 13th Disippel (German The 13th Disciple , Goldmann, 2017) - Thriller
  • 1988 Stien mot fortiden (new edition 2006 under the title Ragnarok ) - horror novel
  • 1993 Skyggelandet - horror novel
  • 1997 Trollspeilet (German Tabu , Goldmann, April 2008) - detective novel
  • 2003 Åndebrettet (German: The Witches Board , Goldmann, October 2007) - detective novel
  • 2005 Ulvenatten (German Wolfsnacht , Goldmann, January 2007) - thriller

Most of these books are self-contained narratives, but the main characters Kristin Bye ( TV presenter ) and Gunnar Borg (retired journalist), introduced in Trollspeilet , can be found in Das Hexenbrett and Wolfsnacht . These novels thus form the Bye / Borg series within Egeland's work. Ragnarok , Skyggelandet , Trollspeilet and Das Hexenbrett all take place (in parts) in the fictional, originally Norwegian Telemark town of Juvdal designed by Egeland, but are otherwise independent of each other.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulvenatten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Egeland, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo