INGRID STORHOLMEN is a Norwegian poet and novelist. Her poetry collections have been published to great acclaim since 2001 and she has read at various international literature festivals. Her first novel Voices from Chernobyl (2009) won the prestigious Sult Prize and its English translation was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, among others. The novel was also translated into Hindi, French and Estonian, among others, and was dramatized for the theatre in 2015. The Mother Who Forgot It Was Evening (2012) was her first book for children. Here Lay Tirpitz is her second novel.