Gard Sveen (born 8 March 1969) is a Norwegian crime fiction writer. He is a recipient of the Riverton Prize and the Glass Key Award.
Born on 8 March 1969, Sveen made his literary debut in 2013, with the crime novel Den siste pilegrimen. The novel introduces the police detective Tommy Bergmann.[1] For Den siste pilegrimen, he was awarded the Riverton Prize in 2013,[2] and the Glass Key award in 2014.[3] In 2015 he wrote the crime novel Helvete åpent, again with Bergmann as protagonist. Further books about Tommy Bergmann are Blod i dans (2016), the espionage thriller Bjørnen (2018), and Drømmenes Gud (2019).[1]
In 2022 he published the non-fiction work Spioner i krig[no], about Soviet agents in Norway during and after World War II.[1]
In 2023 he introduced a new crime series with investigators Ulf Sommer and Agnete Ness as protagonists, starting with the novel En dag skal du dø (2023), and the sequel Messe for en morder (2024).[1]
