List of Norwegian Women Writers (113 items)report

• Anna Caspari Agerholt (1892–1943), women's rights activist, writer and educator, covered the history of the Norwegian women's movement (A)

• Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen (1915–1985), early modernist poet, travel writer (A)

• Ella Anker (1870–1958), journalist, playwright, pamphleteer (A)

• Nini Roll Anker (1873–1942), prolific realistic novelist, playwright (A)

• Ingeborg Arvola (born 1974), novelist, children's writer (A)

• Elise Aubert (1837–1909), novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer (A)

• Orkidedatter Author (born 1975), poet, short story writer, artist (A)

• Irene Ibsen Bille (1901–1985), novelist, playwright (B)

• Inger Bråtveit (born 1978), novelist, children's writer (B)

• Toril Brekke (born 1949), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, works on women's rights (B)

• Hanne Bramness (born 1959), poet (B)

• Gerd Brantenberg (born 1941], novelist, dramatist, feminist (B)

• Elin Brodin (born 1963), novelist (B)

• Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (1758–1825), poet, only acknowledge women writer of her times (B)

• Camilla Carlson (1930–1990), poet, novelist, critic (C)

• Solveig Christov (1918–1984), novelist, short story writer, playwright (C)

• Camilla Collett (1813–1895), novelist, feminist essayist (C)

• Marie Colban (1814–1884), novelist, short story writer (C)

• Gro Dahle (born 1962), poet, children's writer (D)

• Ingri d'Aulaire, English-language children's writer, together with husband Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (D)

• Elisabeth Dored (1813–1895), novelist, author of I Loved Tiberius set in ancient Rome (D)

• Conradine Birgitte Dunker (1780–1866), memoirist (D)

• Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik (born 1977), journalist, historian, non-fiction writer (D)

• Clara Thue Ebbell (1880–1971), young adult writer, biographer, feminist (E)

• Marit Eikemo (born 1971), essayist, novelist, journalist, magazine editor (E)

• Ellen Einan (1931–2013), poet, illustrator (E)

• Rawdna Carita Eira (born 1970), Norwegian and Sámi playwright, short story writer (E)

• Anne Karin Elstad (1938–2012), author of best-selling novels, including the four-part series on Julie (E)

• Magli Elster (1912–1993), poet, literary critic (E)

• Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634–1716), poet, Norway's first female author (E)

• Karin Fossum (born 1954), widely translated crime fiction writer, known as the "Norwegian queen of crime" (F)

• Ågot Gjems-Selmer (1858–1926), writer of works on family life, children's writer (G)

• Beate Grimsrud (born 1963), novelist, playwright, children's writer (G)

• Magnhild Haalke (1885–1984), widely recognized author of 30 works, mainly novels (H)

• Ingeborg Refling Hagen (1895–1989), prolific novelist, children's writer, poet (H)

• Inger Hagerup (1905–1985), poet, dramatist, anti-Nazi writings (H)

• Marie Hamsun (1881–1969), actress, poet, children's writer, some works translated into English (H)

• Lillemor von Hanno (1900–1984), actress, novelist, playwright (H)

• Inger Elisabeth Hansen (born 1950), poet (H)

• Ebba Haslund (1917–2009), novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, critic, author of Nothing Happened (H)

• Torill Thorstad Hauger (1943–2014), non-fiction writer, children's writer (H)

• Vera Henriksen (1927–2016), historical novelist, playwright, non-fiction writer (H)

• Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959), novelist, children's writer (H)

• Tone Hødnebø (born 1962), poet (H)

• Gunvor Hofmo (1921–1995), influential modernist poet (H)

• Anne Holt (born 1958), best-selling, widely translated crime writer (H)

• Åsta Holth (1904–1999), novelist, poet, short story writer (H)

• Aslaug Høydal (1916–2007), novelist, poet, children's writer, educator (H)

• Ida Hegazi Høyer (born 1981), novelist (H)

• Anna Jacobsen (1924–2004), Norwegian Sami writer, translator and publisher (J)

• Caroline Schytte Jensen (1848–1935), songwriter, composer (J)

• Margaret Johansen (1923–2013), novelist, short story writer, feminist (J)

• Ragnhild Jølsen (1875–1908), reactionary writer, works on conflicts between rural society and industrial communities (J)

• Lizzie Juvkam (1883–1869), novelist (J)

• Mette Karlsvik (born 1978), journalist, novelist (K)

• Mahmona Khan (born 1973), Pakistani-Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer (K)

• Gustava Kielland (1800–1889), songwriter, memoirist (K)

• Liv Køltzow (born 1945), novelist, playwright, essayist, feminist writer (K)

• Christiane Koren (1764–1815), poet, playwright, diarist (K)

• Sissel Lange-Nielsen (born 1931), novelist, critic, journalist (L)

• Britt Karin Larsen (born 1945), poet, novelist, works tracing the Romany people in Norway (L)

• Trude Brænne Larssen (born 1967), novelist (L)

• Marita Liabø (born 1971), novelist (L)

• Tove Lie (1942–2000), poet (L)

• Sofie Aubert Lindbæk (1875–1953), novelist, critic, educator (L)

• Unni Lindell (born 1957), crime fiction writer, children's writer (L)

• Hilde Lindset (born 1978), short story writer, educator (L)

• Merethe Lindstrøm (born 1963), novelist, short story writer (L)

• Cecilie Løveid (born 1951), playwright, children's writer, poem on Breivik (L)

• Ragnhild Magerøy (1920–2010), historical novelist, author of the Gunhild trilogy on 19th-century rural society (M)

• Trude Marstein (born 1973), novelist, essayist, some works translated into English (M)

• Karin Moe (born 1945), poet, prose writer, critic (M)

• Toril Moi (born 1953), academic works on women's writing, feminism, now based in the United States (M)

• Marit Myrvoll (born 1953), Sami social anthropologist, museum director (M)

• Jane Mysen (born 1960), novelist (M)

• Marja Bål Nango (born 1988), Norwegian Sami film director and screenwriter (N)

• Torborg Nedreaas (1906–1987), short story writer, novelist, playwright, evoking class differences (N)

• Åse-Marie Nesse (1934–2001) philologist, poet (N)

• Tove Nilsen (born 1952), novelist, children's writer, critic (N)

• Anne-Pia Nygård (born 1977), autobiography in Nynorsk (N)

• Hanne Ørstavik (born 1969), novelist (O)

• Sara Margrethe Oskal (born 1970), Sami writer, actress, film director (O)

• Mari Osmundsen (born 1951), pen-name of Anne Kristine Halling, novelist, children's writer (O)

• Sissel Benneche Osvold (born 1945), journalist (O)

• Gunnhild Øyehaug (born 1975), poet, short story writer (O)

• Synnøve Persen (born 1950), Sami poet, biographer, artist (P)

• Helvi Poutasuo (1943–2017), Finnish Sami teacher, translator and newspaper editor (P)

• Anne B. Ragde (born 1957), novelist, children's writer, crime fiction writer, author of Berlin Poplars (R)

• Eva Ramm (born 1925), psychologist, essayist, novelist, children's writer (R)

• Wera Sæther (born 1945) psychologist, poet, novelist, essayist, children's writer (S)

• Cora Sandel (1880–1974), short story writer, novelist, painter, author of the Alberta Trilogy (S)

• Mathilde Schjøtt (1844–1926), non-fiction writer, critic, biographer, feminist (S)

• Constance Wiel Schram (1890–1955), non-fiction writer, biographer, translator, feminist (S)

• Åsne Seierstad (born 1970), journalist, non-fiction works including The Bookseller of Kabul (S)

• Solfrid Sivertsen (born 1947), librarian, poet, novelist, children's writer (S)

• Sarita Skagnes (born 1969), Indian-born women's activist, memoirist (S)

• Amalie Skram (1846–1905), short story writer, novelist, feminist (S)

• Kirsten Sødal (born 1935), children's writer (S)

• Kristin Solberg (born 1982), journalist, television reporter (S)

• Kjersti Løken Stavrum (born 1969), journalist, editor, secretary general of the Norwegian Press Association (S)

• Marie Takvam (1926–2008), poet, novelist, children's writer, actress (T)

• Magdalene Thoresen (1819–1903), Danish-born Norwegian poet, short story writer, playwright (T)

• Astrid Tollefsen (1897–1973), poet, lyricist (T)

• Marit Tusvik (born 1951), poet, children's writer, playwright (T)

• Linn Ullmann (born 1966), journalist, novelist (U)

• Aslaug Vaa (1889–1965), poet, playwright (V)

• Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907–1995), poet, children's writer, depictions of women's life (V)

• Anne-Catharina Vestly (1920–2008), popular children's writer, widely translated (V)

• Bjørg Vik (1935–2018), novelist, dramatist, feminist writer, some works translated into English (V)

• Torild Wardenær (born 1951), poet, playwright (W)

• Herbjørg Wassmo (born 1942), poet, novelist (W)

• Elisabeth Welhaven (1815–1901), salonist, short story writer (W)

• Marie Wexelsen (1832–1911), poet, children's writer, novelist, hymnist (W)

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