Niels Fredrik Dahl is a poet, playwright, and novelist. He is the author of six novels, among them On the Way to a Friend (2002), which won the Norwegian Book Prize (The Brage Prize) and was nominated for the Critics’ Prize and the P2 Listeners’ Prize. The acclaimed historical novel Herre (2009) was also nominated for the P2 Listeners’ Prize. In 2017, he published Mother at Night, which ended up on numerous critics’ best-of lists.