Agnar Lirhus (b. 1978) made his debut in 2005 with the novel The Woods Are Green, which was nominated for the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize. Since then he has written seven novels and two poetry collections. In 2011 he received the The Booksellers’ Writer’s Grant. Lirhus has also written books for children and young adults. He was nominated for the Critics’ Prize in 2018 for the YA novel Otherwise I’m Not a Human Being.