Norsk religionshistoriker, skribent og journalist. Var ansvarlig for kåringen av norgeshistoriens beste plateutgivelser i «Morgenbladet topp 100». Han arbeidet i Natt&Dag 2000–07, var i 2009 med på å starte fotballtidsskriftet Josimar, og har vært tilknyttet bladet siden.

Gro Dahle (born 15 May 1962) is a Norwegian poet and writer. She was born in Oslo, and is a daughter of Øystein Dahle. She made her literary début in 1987 with Audiens (Audience), a collection of poetry. Since then Dahle has written over 30 books in different genres, among them a series of picture books for children in collaboration with her husband, Norwegian illustrator Svein Nyhus. Gro Dahle has received several national awards for her work. In 1999 she was the official festival poet at the Bergen International Festival. In 2002 she won the Brage Prize for literature for Snill (Nice), a picture book for children, and in 2003 the Best Children’s Book Prize from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture for Sinna Mann (Angry Man), a book about a boy witnessing domestic violence. Dahle is a stylistically naïve, imaginative and burlesque writer often focusing on psychological problems and relations. She lives and works on the island Tjøme. Dahle also gives lectures in creative writing in Norway and Sweden.

Larissa Bendel (*1974 in Hamburg) ist promovierte Amerikanistin, lizenzierte Fitnesstrainerin und Autorin. 2011 erschien in Norwegen ihr Essayband über das Debütalbum von a-ha, „Hunting High and Low“ (englische Ausgabe 2012). 2014 hat sie das autobiographische „a-ha-Effekte: Die Geschichte einer Leidenschaft für Popmusik“ veröffentlicht (englische Ausgabe 2016). 2018 eschien „Geburtstagskuchen von Prince“, ein Buch über Fans. Außerdem hat sie bisher drei Romane geschrieben: „Puttgarden Mitte See“ (2016), „Herzpuzzle“ (2019) und „Eselgrün“ (2021). Larissa Bendel (*1974 in Hamburg) has a doctoral degree in American Studies, is a licensed fitness trainer and author. In 2011, her essay collection about a-ha’s debut album, “Hunting High and Low,” was published in Norway (Englisch edition 2012). In 2014 she published the autobiographical “a-ha-Effekte: Die Geschichte einer Leidenschaft für Popmusik” (English edition 2016). In 2018, her second book about fans and fandom called “Geburtstagskuchen von Prince” was published. Besides that, she has written three novels: “Puttgarden Mitte See” (2016), “Herzpuzzle” (2019) and “Eselgrün” (2021).

Stig Sæterbakken was a Norwegian author. He published his first book at the age of 18, a collection of poems called Floating Umbrellas, while still attending Lillehammer Senior High School. In 1991, Sæterbakken released his first novel, Incubus, followed by The New Testament in 1993. Aestethic Bliss (1994) collected five years of work as an essayist. Sæterbakken returned to prose in 1997 with the novel Siamese, which marks a significant departure in his style. The following year saw the release of Self-Control. And in 1999, he published Sauermugg. The three books, the S-trilogy—as they are often called—were published in a collected edition in 2000. In February 2001, Sæterbakken's second collection of essays, The Evil Eye was released. As with Aestethic Bliss this book also represents a summing up and a closing of a new phase in the authorship. In many ways the essays throw light on Sæterbakken's own prose over the last years, the S-trilogy in particular. Siamese was released in Sweden by Vertigo. Vertigo followed up with a translation of Sauermugg in April 2007. This edition, however, was different from the Norwegian original. It included some of the later published Sauermugg-monologues, together with left overs from the time the book was written, about 50 pages of new material all together. The expanded edition was entitled Sauermugg Redux. Siamese has since been translated into Danish, Czech and English. Sæterbakken's last books were the novels The Visit, Invisible Hands, and Don't Leave Me. He was awarded the Osloprisen (Oslo Prize) in 2006 for The Visit. Invisible Hands was nominated for both the P2-listener's Novel prize and Youth's Critics' Prize in 2007. The same year he was awarded the Critics Prize and Bokklubbene's Translationprize for his translation of Nikanor Teratologen's Eldreomsorgen i Øvre Kågedalen. Sæterbakken was artistic director of The Norwegian Festival of Literature from 2006 until October 2008, when he resigned owing to the controversy which arose when David Irving was invited to the festival in 2009. Sæterbakken's books were released and translated in several countries, among them Russia and US. April 2009 Flamme Forlag released an essay by Sæterbakken, in their series of book-singles, called Yes. No. Yes. Sæterbakken committed suicide on January 24, 2012, aged 46.