Kjetil Dyrendahl Try (born 24 July 1959) is a Norwegian advertising agency executive and crime fiction writer.
[1] Try made his literary debut in 1997 with the crime fiction novel Stø kurs.
Later novels are Pavlovs hunder (2002), La de små barn komme til meg (2008), and Frels oss fra det onde (2011).
[2] Try is known as a close friend to Labour Party politician and former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg; they graduated together from Oslo Cathedral School in 1978.
[3] Try won a Cannes Golden Lion in 1990 for a film commercial for "Polly" potato chips.