Finn Carling (1 October 1925 – 12 March 2004) was a Norwegian novelist, playwright, poet and essayist.

He followed with a course of study of sociology, history and literature at Howard University in Washington, D.C. during 1957-58.

[1] He made his literary debut in 1949 with Broen (two short stories and a one-act play).

He had authorship of several genres, and became a key figure in Norwegian post-war literature.

He described his childhood and adolescence with this disability in the autobiographical novel Kilden og muren (1958).