Vidar Sundstøl

Vidar Sundstøl is a Norwegian author.  He grew up in Drangedal in the county of Telemark.
He attended the Writers College in Bø in 1987.  Vidar's first book, Kommandolinjer, was published in 2005.  In 2008 the first book in the Minnesota trilogy, Drømmenes land, was released and was later awarded the Riverton Prize for Best Norwegian Crime Fiction.   The series has since been sold to a number of other countries including Denmark, Germany, Iceland, France, and the  Netherlands, and a film option has been sold.