Anna Munch née Dahl (4 August 1856 – 29 November 1932) was a Norwegian novelist and dramatist whose works address conflicts between the sexes, frequently based on her own experience of marriage and divorce.

[1][2][3] Born on 4 August 1856 in the Vestre Aker (now a district of Oslo), Munch was the daughter of the physician Ludvig Vilhelm Dahl (1826–90) and his wife Anna Cathrine Lyders née Bonnevie (1835–93).

[3][4] She was raised in Christiania and Trondheim and experienced a difficult childhood subject to her father's view that women were less skilled than men.

[2] Her second, Kvinder (1989), covers the contrasts for women between marriage and free love and presents the pleasures of the Bohemian way of life.

[3][5] Her most successful work, Glæde (1910), is a semi-autobiographical novel describing the experiences of Ester's now lost utopian childhood as she suffers the ordeals of later life.