Audun Mortensen

Mortensen's debut book, Alle forteller meg hvor bra jeg er i tilfelle jeg blir det (Everyone Tells Me How Great I Am in Case I Become It), was named 2009's best debut poetry book by Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten.

[3] Mortensen has been called "Norway's most modern author"[4] and has been named one of the country's 30 young talents by Dagens Næringsliv.

[5] In 2011 he self-published his coffee table book The Collected Jokes of Slavoj Zizek,[6] which he later sold to MIT Press, which republished his work in numerous languages under the title Zizek's Jokes[7] Flamme Forlag published Mortensen's novel Samleren – in English, The Collector – in October 2015.

The book was later publicly announced by Mortensen to be a remake of the novel The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971) by American writer Charles Willeford.

The publisher insisted that the book was meant to address a grey area that they wanted to be debated.