Tom Egeland
Tom Egeland ( born July 8, 1959 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author and journalist. Born and raised in Oslo, Egeland worked as a journalist for the Norwegian men's magazine Vi Menn and the newspaper Aftenposten, later as managing editor (1992-2000) and news director (2000-2006) in the Oslo - editors of the Norwegian channel TV 2 From 2006 he pursued his writing career full time. His books have been translated into 18 languages.
The breakthrough came with the audience Sirkelens end (German outrage, Goldmann, 2006), about the discovery of a gold shrine that contains a 2000- year-old manuscript that was to change our understanding of Jesus and Christianity fundamentally. Some years after the publication of this novel in 2001 was noted by reviewers and readers to the major thematic similarities to Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, which was published two years (2003) later. Egeland itself has hints, Brown had plagiarized him, categorically rejected in interviews both in Norwegian and in international media. Since Sirkelens end was not yet translated into English at this time, it is now believed that the similarities between the two novels, although striking, are random, and more of them testify that both authors used the same sources during their research.
His novel Ulvenatten 2005 (German wolf night, Goldmann, 2007), was filmed in 2008 by Kjell Sundvall.
Awards
- 2009 Riverton Prize for Lucifer's gospel of the Norwegian Rivertonklubben for the best forensic literary work of the year
Bibliography
- Bjørn Beltø series 2001 Sirkelens end (German outrage, Goldmann, 2006) - Thriller
- 2007 Paktens voktere (German Brotherhood of Guardians, Goldmann, 2008) - Thriller
- 2009 Lucifer Gospel (Eng. The Lucifer Gospel, Goldmann, 2011) - Thriller
- 2012 Nostradamus Wills (Eng. The Nostradamus Testament, 2014) - Thriller
Most of these books are self-contained stories, but there are imported into Trollspeilet main Kristin Bye ( TV presenter ) and Gunnar Borg ( retired journalist) in the Ouija board and Wolfsnacht again. These novels thus form the Bye / Borg - series within Egeland 's work. Ragnarok, Skyggelandet, Trollspeilet and The Ouija board play all ( in part) in the designed by Egeland, fictional ur - Norwegian Telemark town Juvdal, but are otherwise independent.