Chris Tvedt (born 3 August 1954) is a Norwegian lawyer and crime fiction writer. He was awarded the

Riverton Prize The Riverton Prize () is a literature award given annually to the best work of Norwegian crime fiction (novel, short story, play, original screenplay). The prize is named after the Norwegian journalist and author Sven Elvestad (1884-1934) who pub ...

In 2010.

Biography

Tvedt was born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

on 3 August 1954. A lawyer by profession, he made his literary debut in 2005 with the crime novel ''Rimelig tvil ''. A barrister, Mikael Brenne, is the protagonist in the debut novel and subsequent books. Further novels are ''Fare for gjentakelse'' (2007), ''Skjellig grunn til mistanke'' (2008), and ''Rottejegeren'' (2009). He was awarded the

for ''Dødens sirkel'' in 2010. His 2012 novel ''Av jord er du kommet'' introduced the

Kripos The National Criminal Investigation Service (, previously ''Kriminalpolitisentralen''), commonly known as Kripos, is a special agency of the Norwegian Police Service. Based at Bryn in Oslo and established in 1959, it is a national unit that wo ...

investigator Edvard Matre. His next books, ''Den blinde guden'' from 2013, and ''Djevelens barn'' from 2014, both with his wife Elisabeth Gulbrandsen as co-author, also had Edvard Matre as protagonist. In the novels ''Den som forvolder en annens død'' from 2016, ''Bevisets stilling'' (2018), and ''Formildende omstendigheter'' (2019), Mikael Brenne is back as protagonist. In 2021 he wrote the novel ''Djevelen i detaljene'', where both barrister Mikael Brenne and Kripos investigator Edvard Matre appear. The same two, Martre and Brenne, also appear in his next novel, (2023).

References

1954 births Living people Writers from Bergen Norwegian male novelists Norwegian crime fiction writers Lawyers from Bergen 21st-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian male writers {{Norway-novelist-stub