Kirsten Sødal (14 June 1935 – 22 February 2022)[1] was a Norwegian author who wrote several children's books, including Bestefar i spøkelsesbyen (Grandfather in the Ghost town) and the Birkebeinerbarn series.
Her father was a part of the Norwegian resistance movement and contributed by writing secret newspapers with true news.
She wrote small stories and poems her entire life.
Her works include: Bestefar I spøkelsesbyen, the Birkebeinerbarn series, Kamelgutten (The Camel Boy), a Christmas story with one chapter for each day of advent, Med Benjamin til Bethlehem (With Benjamin to Bethlehem), another Christmas story based on a play, På Sporet, Alf, a book based on the childhood of one of her good friends, Alf Huseth.
In 2010 she released a collection of poems she wrote after her husband's death, Takk for blomstene i livet.