Idar Lind (born 23 September 1954) is a Norwegian

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

crime fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professiona ...

writer, songwriter, and playwright.

Biography

Lind was born on the island of

Otterøya Otterøya is an island in Namsos Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The island is the largest island in the northern part of Trøndelag county. Otterøya sits just to the northwest of the town of Namsos on the north side of the Namsenf ...

(now part of

Namsos Municipality (Norwegian language, Norwegian) or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is t ...

) in

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

county, Norway. He made his literary debut in 1983 with ''Stengte dører''. 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 1989 for the crime novel ''13 takters blues''. His crime novel ''Hotell Tordenskjold'' (1985) introduced the characters "Kristian António Steen", a hotel porter of Spanish descent, and police officer "Breheim", as detectives. The same detectives also solved crime problems in the sequels ''Ormens gift'' (1986) and '' 13 takters blues'' (1989). Further crime novels are ''Som to dråper blod'' (1993), ''Usynlige spor'' (1994), and ''Hysj'' (1996). Lind published the song collection ''Bakfot bok'' in 1980. His plays include ''Korsvikaspillet'' (1995) and ''Skottet i Buvika'' (2008). The ''Drakeblod'' series (3 volumes 1988–1991) for young adults is set in the

Viking Age The Viking Age (about ) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. The Viking Age applies not only to their ...

References

1954 births People from Namsos Norwegian crime fiction writers 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian male novelists Norwegian dramatists and playwrights Living people {{Norway-novelist-stub