Mattis Øybø was born in 1971. Since his debut with Everything Sparkles in 2003, he has written four acclaimed and ambitious novels where political and existential issues play themselves out through gripping, personal stories. In 2021 the novel The Last Survivor Is Dead was nominated for the Norwegian Book Prize (the Brage Prize) and the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize. His books have been translated into Swedish and Danish. He lives in Oslo.