V. S. Tideman (b. 1980) made his debut in 2009 with the novel kockmania inc. Me, the Room is his fifth novel.

“V.S. Tideman’s four books make up a consistent exploration of the anatomy of loneliness and acknowledgement. His narrators have been betrayed and they betray others, they are consumed by themselves and their own emotions; it’s almost as if language itself is sick, as if it has been contaminated by loneliness and longing, but that it, neither as capital-letter eruptions nor articulate love prayers, has the ability to break through the barriers of loneliness or loss. Not since Stig Sæterbakken have I seen such base inner darkness in contemporary Norwegian literature, not to mention such a provocative will to explore the ugliest sides of our existence; what people are willing to endure, to what lengths it will go in order to be acknowledged, not to go under in a world that feels empty, hollow, like a scaffold or a rubbish dump … Shame, the basis of so much of our cultural history, is also to be found at the heart of Tideman’s writing. Stemming from a fear of loneliness, it results in literary works written in an attempt to escape, to convince not just yourself, but also the world around that there is something that’s worth living for. That Tideman succeeds in his project is no small feat.”
Bokvennen Litterær Avis, 2018