Jan-Erik Fjell (born 20 October 1982), is a Norwegian novelist and poker player. He is known for a series of crime novels with

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 Anton Brekke.

Biography

Fjell was born in

Fredrikstad Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a List of cities in Norway, city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Østfold Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipal ...

on 20 October 1982. He made his literary debut with the novel ''Pus'' in 2009. His crime novel ''Tysteren'', with "

investigator Anton Brekke" as the detective, was awarded the

Norwegian Booksellers' Prize The Norwegian Booksellers' Prize (''Bokhandlerprisen'') is a literature prize awarded annually by the Norwegian Booksellers Association after voting among all who work in Norwegian bookstores. The prize is awarded for one of the year's books in ...

for 2010. Further crime novels are ''Skyggerom'' (2012), ''Hevneren'' (2013), ''Rovdyret'' (2014) and ''Lykkejegeren'' (2016). Later crime novels with detective Anton Brekke, eventually no longer with Kripos, are ''Gjemsel'' (2019), ''Gråsonen'' (2020), ''Ringmannen'' (2021), ''Cassandra-saken'' (2022), and ''Nattravnen'' (2023).

References

1982 births Living people Writers from Fredrikstad Norwegian male novelists Norwegian crime fiction writers 21st-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian male writers {{Norway-novelist-stub