Stig Sæterbakken published his first book at the age of 18, a collection of poems called Floating Umbrellas, while still attending Lillehammer Senior High School.

Sæterbakken returned to prose in 1997 with the novel Siamese, which marks a significant departure in his style.

It included some of the later published Sauermugg-monologues, together with left overs from the time the book was written, about 50 pages of new material all together.

April 2009 Flamme Forlag released an essay by Sæterbakken, in their series of book-singles, called Yes.

[1] In October 2008 Sæterbakken angrily resigned from his position as content director of the 2009 Norwegian Festival of Literature at Lillehammer.

A media storm had erupted in Norway over Irving's appearance and several high-profile writers had denounced the initiative and called for a boycott of the festival.

Even Norway's free speech organization Fritt Ord had requested that its logo be removed from the festival.