Born in 1959, Egeland worked as journalist for a magazine and as a reporter and editor for Aftenposten before working in television. In 2006, he became a full-time fiction writer. His books include horror, suspense, and multiple children's book. His most famous novel, Relic, which predated Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is so simillar some readers speculated it influenced Brown, but the author has said they simply drew on similar sources. In 2009 he won the Riverton Prize.
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