Lars Ramslie (born 1974) is one of the most distinctive and unique voices in contemporary Norwegian literature. He made his debut in 1997 with the novel Biopsy, for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Prize. In 2004 Ramslie was voted one of Norway’s 10 best writers under 35 by the Norwegian Festival of Literature and Morgenbladet. The Mountain, the Gun, the Lake is his seventh novel.