55 Norwegian women writers

Ingvil Hareide Aarbakke was a Norwegian artist. With her husband Ion Sorvin, she was the moving force behind the Copenhagen-based collective N55 in 1994.

Selma Lønning Aarø is a Norwegian novelist, humorist, children's writer and columnist.

Anna Caspari Agerholt (1892–1943) was a Norwegian women's rights activist and writer. She is remembered in particular for her groundbreaking Den norske kvinnebevegelses historie, published in 1937. Agerholt was a pioneering educator in social studies, giving a series of one-year courses for the Norwegian National Women's Council.

Eli Birgit "Ella" Anker was a Norwegian magazine journalist, newspaper correspondent, playwright, feminist, and pamphleteer.

Eva Therese Bjørneboe is a Norwegian theatre critic and editor. She writes for Aftenposten and is also editor of Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift. She is a member of the jury of the International Ibsen Award.

Jacobine Camilla Collett was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature. Her younger brother was Major General Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland.

Ingrid Elise Dahle is a UK-based Norwegian comedian and actress.

Sidsel Dalen is a Norwegian journalist and crime fiction writer.

Conradine Birgitte Dunker was a Norwegian socialite and writer.

Fam Kristina Ekman is a Swedish－Norwegian children's writer and illustrator.

Birte Fosheim Wienskol, better known as Minken Fosheim, was a Norwegian actress and author, best known for her children's books about famous composers, and her role as Vigdis Reverud in the 1990s sitcom Karl & Co.

Shabana Rehman Gaarder is a Pakistani-Norwegian stand-up comedian, writer and columnist. Using her sense of shocking humour on stage and in newspaper columns, she is a controversial voice in discussions on immigration and integration of Muslims in Norway, which has resulted in her persona becoming a subject in itself, referred to as the "Shabana debate".

Ågot Gjems Selmer, also Ågot Gjems-Selmer, was a Norwegian actress, writer, and lecturer.

Bolette Margrethe Gjør, née Nissen was a Norwegian writer and inner missionary.

Inger Wenche Alver Gløersen was a Norwegian smallholder and writer.

Ulrikke Eleonore Sigwardt Greve (1868–1951) was a leading Norwegian textile artist in the early 20th-century, excelling in tapestry work. In 1900, she was appointed director of the weaving school at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Trondheim. From 1905, she taught and produced rugs in the establishment she opened in Oslo. Some were her own creations, others were from designs by artists including Gerhard Munthe and Arne Kavli. Her works can be seen in Oslo City Hall and in museums including the National Museum of Norway.

Kari Grossmann is a Norwegian artist and children's writer. One of Norway's most popular illustrators, she has been called the Queen of Norwegian Everyday Picture Books. Her books in the Lillesøster series are popular in both Norway and Denmark.

Marie Hamsun was a Norwegian actress and writer.

Lillemor von Hanno was a Norwegian actress, novelist and playwright.

Wanda Maria Heger was a Norwegian social worker noted for her efforts to help Norwegian and other prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska was a Norwegian writer, famous for her liaisons with various prominent artists, and for the dramatic circumstances of her death. She was the model for some of Edvard Munch's paintings. She had relationships with Munch and briefly with Swedish playwright and painter August Strindberg. In 1893, she married the Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Together they had two children. She was shot in a hotel room in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1901, three days before her thirty-fourth birthday.

Mahmona Khan is a Norwegian author, writer, journalist and has been a social commentator.

Susanne Sophie Catharina Gustava Kielland was a Norwegian author and missionary pioneer.

Trude Marstein is a Norwegian author. She attended Telemark University College and studied creative writing studies. At the University of Oslo she studied pedagogy, psychology, and the history of literature. She debuted in 1998 with a collection of prose titled Sterk sult, plutselig kvalme, for which she received Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.

Lajla Mattsson Magga is a Southern Sami teacher, children's writer and lexicographer. Married to fellow Sami linguist Ole Henrik Magga, she lives in Kautokeino in the far northern Norwegian county of Finnmark.

Vera Micaelsen was a Norwegian television journalist and author.

Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Moi is also the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke. As an undergraduate, she attended University of Bergen, where she studied in the Literature Department. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway. She lived in Oxford, United Kingdom from 1979 to 1989. Moi lives in North Carolina. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and is fundamentally concerned with "finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing the one to the other."

Marit Myrvoll is a Sami social anthropologist who is director of the Várdobáiki Museum at the Várdobáiki Sami Centre in Tjeldsund Municipality in the far north of Norway. As of 2020, she heads the Sami Research Steering Committee at the Research Council of Norway. For the period 2020 to 2022, she has been appointed project leader for the SANKS project Vold og overgrep i samiske samfunn.

Ragnhild Nilstun is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer and literary critic.

Erna Osland is a Norwegian teacher and author of children's literature. She made her literary debut in 1987 with the youth's book Natteramnen. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 1999 for Salamandarryttaren.

Hæge Follegg Pedersen is a Norwegian writer for children and young adults.

Minda Mathea Olava Ramm was a Norwegian novelist, translator and literary critic.

Turid Rugaas is a Norwegian dog trainer. Rugaas got her first dog in 1948 and has been training since 1969. She set up her dog school Hagan Hundeskole in 1984 on her farm on overlooking the fjords of Norway. She started educating other dog trainers and giving seminars 1992. Since then conducted workshops in 12 different countries with students from 24 countries. She is now retired from actual dog training, but continues to conduct seminars and workshops internationally.

Iben Sandemose is a Norwegian illustrator, children's writer, playwright and biographer. She was born in Oslo, and is the granddaughter of Aksel Sandemose. Among her children's books is Vingemus og kattejammer from 1987, and Ringeren & Notre Madame from 1994, which was adapted for theatre and staged at Centralteatret in 1994. She was awarded Teskjekjerringprisen in 2011. She is represented with her art works at Riksgalleriet and at the National Gallery of Norway.

Hilde Sandvik is a Norwegian journalist.

Máret Ánne Sara is a Sami artist and author born in Norway. She lives and works in Kautokeino.

Eva Scheer (1915–1999) was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, translator and author.

Mathilde Schjøtt was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist. She made her literary debut with the anonymous Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse in 1871. She was a literary critic for the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift, and her play Rosen was published anonymously in this periodical in 1882. She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884, and a member its first board. She wrote a biography on Alexander L. Kielland in 1904.

Constance Wiel Nygaard Schram was a Norwegian writer and translator. She was the daughter of William Martin Nygaard (1865–1912) and Constance Wiel (1866–1931). Constance was the eldest of seven siblings, one of her brothers was the publisher, Mads Wiel Nygaard. She married Thomas Schram, and they had a son, Andreas.

Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.

Sarita Skagnes, is a Norwegian author.

Dorthe Skappel is a Norwegian television personality, journalist, celebutante and former model, probably best known for hosting God kveld, Norge! and Gullruten on TV2.

Jenny Ebbing Skavlan is a Norwegian model, actress, television presenter, and author. She started her career by appearing in a television commercial for Pizza Grandiosa in 2007. She has since appeared in such films as Fatso, Dead Snow, Børning, and Tomme Tønner. In 2008 Skavlan participated as a celebrity dancer on Skal vi danse? on Norway's TV2. In 2012 she wrote a book, Sy om, about her passion for sewing.

Kari Skjønsberg was a Norwegian academic, writer and feminist.

Liv Inger Somby is a Sámi educator, writer, and journalist. She specializes in indigenous journalism which she teaches at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino in the north of Norway.

Kari Stai is a Norwegian illustrator, graphic designer and children's writer. In 2012, she was awarded the Brage Prize for children's literature with her Jakob og Neikob. Tjuven slår tilbake.

Kjersti Løken Stavrum is a Norwegian journalist and editor. Since April 2013, she has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Press Association.

Marta Steinsvik was a Norwegian author and translator. She was a champion of women's rights, a proponent of anti-semitism and anti-Catholicism, and promoter of the use of Nynorsk. She was the first female to graduate from the Norwegian School of Theology.

Hege Storhaug is a Norwegian journalist, author and political activist. She has been noted since the 1990s for her criticism of Islam and immigration, and for her women's rights activism, highlighting Muslim women in particular. Since 2002 she has been the information director of Human Rights Service. Her 2015 book Islam, den 11. landeplage became a bestseller in Norway and has been translated into several languages.

Johanne Giæver Tenfjord was a Norwegian librarian, educator, children's writer and translator.

Clara Tschudi was a Norwegian writer.

Anne-Cath. Vestly was a Norwegian author of children’s literature. She is known for a wide range of children's books published from 1953 to 2004. Vestly was best known for her series about a grandmother (Mormor) who looked after and shared numerous adventures with a flock of eight children.

Marianne Viermyr is a Norwegian children's author. She debuted as an author in 1976 and has written full-time since 1988. She won the Damm Prize in 1989 for Sviktet. She lived in the Østfold for 18 years before she settled in Bærum in 1989.

Nikka Vonen was a Norwegian educator, folklorist and author.

Elise Wærenskjold was a Norwegian-American writer, temperance leader and early pioneer in Texas.