Erland Kiøsterud (born 1953) made his debut in 1973 with the novel Wounds that Never Heal. He has since written several novels and novel cycles. In 1986, Kiøsterud won the Gyldendal Endowment, later known as the Gyldendal Prize. For The First Work (2005), he received the Riksmål Society Literature Prize. In 2012, he received the Ypsilon Prize for the novel Mimina. Kiøsterud’s profound, probing novels have won him a very special position in Norwegian contemporary literature.