Helge Fauskanger

In 2015 he published a commentary edition of The New Testament newly translated from Greek into Norwegian, observing to the annoyance of the Norwegian Bible Society that their 2011 version was more polished than the original. The translation tried to preserve illogicalities and bad language in the original Bible text. The Society commented that it was almost impossible to give the "real" text as it had mainly been presented orally and then written by people for whom Greek was not their first language; in their view Fauskanger's "polemic oozes with contempt". Fauskanger denied that he held the Bible in contempt.

Fauskanger's debut as a crime writer was the crime novel Skrinet in 2012, published by Baskerville. This is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche where Holmes comes to Norway in 1895, and tracks down the lost reliquary of St. Sunniva. The novel Skarlagenssalen (Gyldendal 2013) is a sequel to Skrinet with the same first-person narrator, who in this story meets the ten-year-old Vidkun Quisling in 1897. Vidkun is with his father Jon Lauritz Qvisling [no] on a paranormal investigation at a dark manor in Østfold. The story is a crime thriller with inspiration from John Dickson Carr. Both Skrinet and Skarlagenssalen were awarded a dice throw of 5 by Norway's Verdens Gang newspaper.

Fauskanger's satirical debut novel Fullmåne over Uroba ("Full Moon over Uroba" 2009) describes an alternative reality where a nation resembling the USA is located in Europe instead.

Fauskanger has studied both philology and religious studies, and has taken courses in classical Hebrew, Greek and Coptic. His main thesis The Bible in Norwegian (1998) compares selected texts from three widespread Norwegian Bible translations. He describes himself as an agnostic and skeptic.

Helge Kåre Fauskanger (born 17 August 1971) is a Norwegian author and philologist. In Norway he is known as a crime novelist; elsewhere, he is best known as a Tolkien scholar with an interest in Tolkien's constructed languages.

The Norwegian national newspaper Aftenposten describes Fauskanger as having "an aura of 1905 about him", the year in which his book Skamtegnet is set. It calls the book at once a historical crime novel, a murder mystery, and a streak of supernatural horror. The paper's reviewer Pål Gerhard Olsen calls the book "an excellent read" with an "exquisitely elegant" plot and a masterfully constructed ending. The paper writes that with his knowledge of multiple ancient languages "one can safely say that [Fauskanger] is almost unbearably scholarly".

Reviewing Fauskanger's book Skrinet, the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagsavisen writes that the novel begins from a sentence by Arthur Conan Doyle, which mentions that Sherlock Holmes visited Norway in 1895, and the last line of The Adventure of Black Peter where Holmes says that his address will be "somewhere in Norway". Asked if this was just "literary grave robbing", Fauskanger replied that the book has fun with Holmes, St Sunniva, and Jewish Kabbalah mysticism, three things that might not seem to be connected until one reads the book.