Gabi Gle­ich­mann, born in Budapest in 1954, was raised in Swe­den. After stud­ies in lit­er­a­ture and phi­los­o­phy, he worked as a jour­nal­ist and served as pres­i­dent of the Swedish PEN orga­ni­za­tion. Gle­ich­mann lives in Oslo and works as a writer, and pub­lish­er. His first nov­el, The Elixir of Immor­tal­i­ty, was sold to twelve coun­tries pri­or to its pub­li­ca­tion in Norway.