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 writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

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

writer, songwriter and playwright.

Biography

Lind was born on the island of

Otterøya Otterøya is an island in the municipality of Namsos 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 ...

(now part of

Namsos ( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Kl ...

) in

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

county, Norway. He made his literary debut in 1983 with ''Stengte dører''. He was awarded the

Riverton Prize The Riverton Prize ( no, Rivertonprisen) is a literature award given annually to the best Norwegian crime story (novel, short story, play, original screenplay). The prize is named after the Norwegian journalist and author Sven Elvestad (1884-1934) ...

in 1989 for the crime novel ''13 takters blues''. His crime novel ''Hotell Tordenskjold'' (1985) introduced the characters "Kristian António Steen", a

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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

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include ''Korsvikaspillet'' (1995) and ''Skottet i Buvika'' (2008). The ''Drakeblod'' series (3 volumes 1988–1991) for young adults is set in the

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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-writer-stub