Dagfinn Grønoset (4 April 1920 – 28 January 2008) was a journalist and writer born in Trysil, Norway, and living in Elverum most of his life.

Anna i Ødemarka from 1972 became one of the biggest commercial successes for Norwegian publishing houses, and is later translated into fourteen languages, issued in seventeen countries.

[2] Further books are Finnskog og trollskap (1953), a biography of Hallgeir Brenden from 1956, Nitahå-Jussi (1957), Med Kong Olav mot nord (1959), Langs bygdevegen (1960), and I Vinjes fotspor (1960).

Anna i ødemarka from 1972 portrayed one of these people in more detail, as a heroine living a hard life close to nature.

The book soon became very popular, and received massive media attention such as full-page newspaper coverage and separate television programs.