Grimsrud was born in Bærum, Norway and settled in Sweden.

[1] Among her books are Continental Heaven (1993), Å smyge forbi en øks (1998), and Søvnens lekkasje (2007).

Her novel En dåre fri (2010) was awarded the 2010 Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature.

Her last work was Jag föreslår att vi vaknar.

Novels such as Evighetsbarnen (2015) and Jeg (2020) have yet to receive posthumous English translations.