Tore Renberg (born 1972) is among Norway´s finest and most beloved writers. He has published several critically acclaimed novels, won several prizes and gained an extraordinary large audience for his intense, dark, witty and aesthetically vivid novels, amongst them the classic story about being in love with a boy, «Mannen som elsket Yngve» (2003), the coming of age-novel "Kompani Orheim" (2005), the baroque and burlesque Teksas-series (2013-2021), and the moving novels "Du er så lys" (2016) and "Tollak til Ingeborg" (2021). The multi-talented artist from Stavanger started out as a violinist in his youth, he also trained as a pianist, before picking up the guitar as a 15-year-old. Renberg played in several indie-bands before making his debut as a solo-artist with "Ingen nåde" in 2015, produced by Yngve L. Sætre. In 2017 "Ein dag te" followed, produced by Bjarne Stensli and Odd Nordstoga. The autumn of 2021 Renberg´s third solo-album was released, produced by Håvard Rosenberg and dryly titled "31. januar 1981", more progressive than the earlier records, full of wet and warm songs about leaving for a new world, getting drunk in front of a football-match on the telly, a bandit who finds it hard coming out of prison, and a girl in deep crisis.