Christian Refsum (born 8 October 1962) is a Norwegian literary scholar, poet and novelist.
[1] He earned his doctorate with a dissertation on Nordic and French symbolism from the last half of the 19th century.
He made his fiction debut in 2001 with the short story collection Transport.
[2] He has previously played in rock bands such as And the Balcony Fell, Ym:Stammen and Dog Age.
"[4] In 2022 he was awarded Universitetsforlaget's Nordic academic prize (Årets tidsskriftartikkel), that aims to recognise the best scholarship that is published in the Nordic countries, for his article on Karl Ove Knausgård's book Spring.