Ragnhild Magerøy (9 July 1920 – 16 November 2010) was a Norwegian novelist, essayist and poet. She is principally known as a historical novelist. Magerøy was born at Fræna in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

as the youngest of six siblings. In 1958 she moved with her family to Oslo where she was given the opportunity to study historical material at the

University of Oslo Library The University of Oslo Library ( no, Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo, UBO) is a library connected to the University of Oslo. Like the university, it was established in 1811 with Georg Sverdrup as the first head librarian. It originally doubled as ...

. She became focused in historic but often forgotten female figures. Her female characters are often high-spirited and center to the plot. She made her literary début in 1957 with the novel ''Gunhild'', the first volume of a novel trilogy about the lives of women in a small rural village in the 19th century. Her subsequent novels were often placed within the Norwegian Medieval Period. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1975.

Selected works

*''Dronning uten rike'', 1966, *''Mens nornene spinner'', 1969 *''Himmelen er gul'', 1970, *''Spotlight på sagaen'', 1991, *''Den hvite steinen'', 1995, *''Hallfrid'', 1997.

References

1920 births 2010 deaths People from Møre og Romsdal 20th-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian essayists Norwegian women poets 20th-century Norwegian poets 20th-century essayists 20th-century Norwegian women writers {{Norway-writer-stub