Annette MÜNCH, born in Oslo, Norway, loved writing and martial arts from a young age. When she was seventeen she got her black belt, and when she was nineteen she started working on her first novel; Kaoskrigeren (The Chaos Warrior, awarded the Ministry of Culture’s book prize for best first novel), which got published six years later. After studying media at the University of Oslo and Hedmark College and working as a freelance journalist, at the age of twenty-three she got a job as an editor for teenage magazines at Egmont, before moving to the newspaper Aftenposten seven years later. Today she is a full-time writer. Among her latest books are Jenteloven (The Girl Code, 2009, awarded the Norwegian Bookseller Federation’s Prize for children and young adult books), The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts (2012) and Badboy: Steroid (2014, awarded the Brage Prize for best children and young adult books and the Østfoldungdommens Kritikkerpris).