Heidi Marie Kriznik was born in 1970 and lives in Oslo. She made her debut with the novel Applause in 2002, for which she received the Tarjei Vesaas’ First Book Prize. Her second novel Gone One Winter was shortlisted for the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize and the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize, as well as bringing her the Booksellers’ Authors’ Grant. In 2009 Kriznik received the Unified Language Literature Prize. Her third novel, You Can Sleep Here, was published in 2012.