Trude Lorentzen (b. 1974) was born and lives in Oslo. An experienced feature journalist, she won the Great Journalism Prize for a reportage on the empty rooms that remained from the young Utøya victims. Her second book, My Mother: A Mystery, was Book of the Month in the main Norwegian book club, spent several weeks in the bestseller chart, and was nominated for the Brage Prize. Total print-run so far is 25,000 copies.