In The Gospel of Loki, Joanne Harris is the author of the framing introduction and epilogue as well as the novel itself.
The 2014 novel retells Norse myths in Loki’s first-person voice, presenting the trickster as narrator and participant. Harris structures the book as a literary “gospel,” using Loki’s perspective to reinterpret the gods, giants, bargains, betrayals, and approach of Ragnarök.
The framing material reinforces the idea that the account is Loki’s version of events rather than a neutral transcription of myth. That narrative choice distinguishes the book from scholarly translations of the Poetic Edda or Prose Edda.
Neil Gaiman also wrote a modern book titled Norse Mythology, which is a frequent source of confusion, but he did not write The Gospel of Loki. Kevin Crossley-Holland and Philip Pullman likewise produced other mythological or legendary retellings.