42 Nynorsk language writers

Olav Aukrust was a Norwegian poet and teacher. He popularized the use of Nynorsk as a literary language and is most commonly associated with his poem Himmelvarden (1916).

Anton Magnus Aure was a Norwegian schoolteacher, bibliographer and book collector.

Elias Blix was a Norwegian professor, theologian, hymn writer, and a politician for the Liberal Party. Blix wrote numerous hymns and was largely responsible for translating the New Testament into the Norwegian language.

Oskar Braaten was a Norwegian novelist and playwright.

Jan-Magnus Bruheim was a Norwegian poet and children's writer.

Olav Dalgard was a Norwegian literary and art historian, filmmaker, author and educator.

Olav Duun was a noteworthy author of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was nominated twenty-four times, in fourteen years.

Linda Eide is a Norwegian television and radio presenter, programme producer, comedian, actor and chat-show host.

Kjartan Fløgstad is a Norwegian author. Fløgstad was born in the industrial city of Sauda in Ryfylke, Rogaland. He studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen. Subsequently, he worked for a period as an industrial worker and as a sailor before he debuted as a poet with his collection of poems titled Valfart (Pilgrimage) in 1968. He received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his 1977 novel Dalen Portland. Other major works include Fyr og flamme, Kron og mynt, Grand Manila and Grense Jakobselv.

Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author and dramatist.

Arne Garborg was a Norwegian writer.

Nikolaus Gjelsvik was a Norwegian jurist and law professor.

Ottar Grepstad is a Norwegian Nynorsk writer.

Frode Grytten (born 11 December 1960 in Bergen, but grew up in Odda is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage Prize-winning novel Bikubesong, and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, French, English, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.

Leif Torvald Halse was a Norwegian teacher, novelist, short story writer, children's writer, comics writer and local historian, particularly known for the comics series Vangsgutane.

Øystein Hauge is a Norwegian writer.

Edvard Hoem is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist, psalmist and government scholar. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection Som grønne musikantar. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1974 for the novel Kjærleikens ferjereiser. He was awarded the Melsom Prize in 2006, and the Peter Dass Prize in 2007 for the novel Mors og fars historie. He received the Ibsen Prize in 2008 for the play Mikal Hetles siste ord.

Åsta Holth was a Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer. She made her literary debut in 1944 with the short story collection Gamle bygdevegen. In 1946, she published the poetry collection Porkkalafela. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1977.

Ragnar Hovland is a Norwegian novelist, essayist, poet, and writer of children's books.

Are Kalvø is a Norwegian writer and satirist.

Inge Krokann was a Norwegian writer. His most famous work is I Dovre Sno (1929), an epic story of the Loe family during the Middle Ages. Because his writing was full of local expressions and is so strongly tied to the use of the Oppdal dialect and idiosyncratic Nynorsk, his works are largely inaccessible and difficult to translate.

Anders Matias Abrahamsen Lothe was a Norwegian teacher, newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.

Eldrid Lunden is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000.

Sven Moren was a Norwegian farmer, poet, story writer, playwright, children's writer, organizer and politician for the Liberal Party.

Ivar Mortensson-Egnund was a Norwegian author, journalist, theologian, researcher, translator, writer, philosopher and advocate of nynorsk. He was born in Alvdal North Østerdal. His parents were Anne Petronelle Tangen, and Morten Mortensen Ogarden, a former parliament member for the Liberals, both from Tynset. He studied theology in Christiania and was cand. theol. in 1883. However, he did not practice as a priest before he became a diocese curate at Hamar in 1909. In 1894 he married Karen Nilsen and they farmed at Einabu in Folldal, a farm which his family had purchased in 1873.

Anne-Pia Nygård is a Norwegian writer. Her debut book was the 2009 autobiography What Nobody Sees.

Tor Obrestad was a Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer.

Tore Ørjasæter was a Norwegian educator, literature critic and poet.

Einar Økland is a Norwegian poet, playwright, essayist and children's writer.

Gunnhild Øyehaug is a Norwegian poet, writer and lecturer.

Agnes Ravatn is a Norwegian novelist, columnist and journalist.

Jakob Sande was a Norwegian writer, poet and folk singer from Dale in Sunnfjord. His parents were Andreas Sande and Ragna Margrete. He married Solveig Ytterlid in 1942 and they had a daughter, Siri, in 1943.

Per Sivle was a Norwegian poet, novelist and newspaper editor. He is known for his novel Streik from 1891, and for his collections of stories issued between 1887 and 1895, Sogor, Vossa-Stubba, Nye Vossa-stubbar and Sivle-Stubbar. Among his poetry collections is Bersøglis- og andre Viser from 1895.

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.

Rasmus Olai Steinsvik was a Norwegian writer, magazine editor and newspaper editor. He was born in Volda, and was married to Marta Steinsvik. He edited the magazine Fedraheimen from 1889 to 1891, and started the newspaper Den 17de Mai in 1894, which he edited until his death. Among his literary works were Martyra from 1892,the story I dulsmaal from 1896, and Holmgang from 1909.

Hadia Tajik is a Pakistani-Norwegian jurist, journalist and politician. On 21 September 2012, she was appointed Minister of Culture. She was 29 years of age at the time and became the youngest minister to serve in the Norwegian government. She is the first Muslim and Asian member of government, and is a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party representing Oslo.

Carl Frode Tiller is a Norwegian author, historian and musician. His works are in Nynorsk, one of the two official Norwegian standard languages.

Aslaug Vaa was a Norwegian poet and playwright. Her works contain elements from local tradition and landscape mixed with international influence.

Halldis Moren Vesaas was a Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books. She established herself as one of the leading Norwegian writers of her generation.

Olav Vesaas is a Norwegian journalist, biographer and publisher.

Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II.

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a famous Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål.