Tom Egeland Biografi
Tom Egeland is a Norwegian author. His great-grandfather was Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger, one of the pioneer authors of popular literature in Norway. Egeland’s novels are published in 24 languages.
Author and journalist Tom Egeland was born in 1959 in Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the suburb Kalbakken in Groruddalen, north of Oslo’s city center, where his parents ran two shops.
As a young teenager he was active in a local youth club for Christians, but he later left the Christian faith.
Egeland attended Nordtvet primary school, Groruddalen junior high school and Oslo katedralskole high school (1975-1979). During high school, he lived for a year as an exchange student in the USA (attending Northglenn high school in Denver and Granger high school in Salt Lake City) in 1977-78. Egeland’s American host family were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (mormons).
Egeland worked as a journalist in the weekly magazine Vi Menn (1979-1983) before he was hired as a news reporter by the daily paper Aftenposten. He worked for Aftenposten from 1983 to 1992, as a reporter, news desk editor and night shift editor from 1983 to 1992. In 1992 he was hired by the newly founded tv channel TV 2, working as an editor at the Bergen based tv station’s Oslo office (1992-2006).
From 2006, Egeland has worked as a full time author.
Tom Egeland made his literary debut in 1988 with the horror novel Ragnarok about a modern couple trapped in the Norse viking age. In 1993 he published the horror novel Shadowland. In the media thriller Troll’s Mirror (1997) he introduced the characthers Kristin Bye and Gunnar Borg – both journalists – who also appear in later books.
His commercial break-through was the novel Circle’s End (2001), about the discovery of a gold shrine – The Shrine of Sacred Secrets – containing a 2000 year old manuscript changing the world’s perception of Jesus Christ and Christianity. Several years later, critics and readers noted the striking similarities between Circle’s End and the international bestseller The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (published in 2003, two years after Circle’s End). Egeland has in numerous interviews in Norwegian and European media categorically dismissed any claims of Brown having plagerized him, stating they obviously had the same idea and did much of the same research (and reading the same books) – all by coincident.
Tom Egeland
Later Egeland wrote the parapsychological crime novel The Ouija Board (2004). The thriller The Night of the Wolves (2005) – about Checken terrorists taking control over a live television debate show – will also be a feature length movie and a tv mini-series. Egeland wrote the script himself.
In 2007 Tom Egeland published two books: The Girl in the Mirror (for young adults) and Guardians of the Covenant, a thriller with the same main character as Circle’s End: The albino archaeologist Bjørn Beltø.
Egeland’s books have been translated into 24 languages.
Tom Egeland Wife and Children
Tom Egeland is married and has three children: Jorunn, Vegard and Astrid. The family lives in Oslo, Norway.
Tom Egeland Sirkelens Ende | Circle’s End
A masterful concoction of history and intrigue, referred to by critics as “the Norwegian Da Vinci Code” A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery, but nobody knows where. One determined man sets out to find this sensational artifact and to trace its origins. His quest takes him to a scientific intelligence organization in London, a Middle Eastern outpost, and a Crusaders’ castle in a French village, as layer by layer he reveals the religious mysteries inside the Shrine of Sacred Secrets.
Originally published: 2001
Author: Tom Egeland
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror fiction, Historical Fiction
Tom Egeland Djevelmasken
Djevelmasken “Devil’s Mask” is the sixth novel of the archeology professor Bjørn Beltø. In the introduction to “Devil’s Mask” archaeologist Bjørn Beltø is committed to helping the police with a killing case. It has disturbing connections to the past, to earlier killing and occult events.
The great mysteries that have made the nervous wreck Bjørn Beltø world famous and myth-spilled are gone. In the “Devil’s Mask” there are little people’s doubts, faiths and dark secrets that play the lead role.
Author: Tom Egeland
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 2016
Tom Egeland Ungdomsbøker | The Catacombs Secret
When Will and Molly are sent on a simple errand to the basement of their church, they discover a way to travel back in time. Unfortunately, someone else has already discovered this secret time passage and used it to change the story of Noah’s ark. Now the horses are missing and may not make it back in time before the flood. Will and Molly must get to the ark and figure out how to correct the story and set everything right before the earth is covered in water. Set within a fun mystery, Secret of the Catacombs takes a closer look at the foundational story of Noah’s ark. Young readers will understand what it was really like for Noah and his family when they faced the flood, and the impact of the ark on modern day life. They will also use key memory verses and story references to help them become more familiar with the Bible’s books, chapters, and verses.
Originally published: April 2012
Author: Mary Litton
Illustrator: Aleksandra Chabros
Genres: Fiction, Biblical Fiction
Tom Egeland Books
- Lasaruseffekten (2017)
- Djevelmasken (2016)
- Den 13. disippel (2014)
- The Secret of the Catacomb (2013)
- Nostradamus’ testamente (2012)
- Lies of the Fathers (2010)
- The Gospel of Lucifer (2009)
- The Girl in the Mirror (2007)
- Guardians of the Covenant (2007)
- Night of the Wolves (2005)
- The Ouija Board (2004)
- Circle’s End (2001)
- Troll Mirror (1997)
- Shadowland (1993)
- Ragnarok (1988)