Gerd Brantenberg

Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born October 27, 1941) is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer.

She has an English hovedfag (main subject, comparable to a Master), from the University of Oslo, where she also studied history and political science.

She has established women's shelters and has worked in Lesbisk bevegelse (Lesbian movement) in both Oslo and Copenhagen.

She has published 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to numerous anthologies.

[5] In the 1970s, Brantenberg was in a lesbian partnership with the Danish writer Vibeke Vasbo who joined her in Oslo in 1974.