Kirsti Blom (born 1 May 1953)[citation needed] is a Norwegian author, raised in Hov in Søndre Land.
In 2007, Kirsti Blom and Kit M. Kovacs were nominated for the Brage Prize for the Polar Bear in the non-fiction class for children.
[1] The novel Kitten from 2003 is the story of a young Norwegian who goes to the Belgian Congo in the year 1900, and undergoes a development from a fairly innocent youth to an oppressor and abuser.
Both the novel Jeg så alt (I Saw Everything; 2013) and the collection of poems Den første vanlige dagen (The First Ordinary Day; 2014) draw inspiration from Andalucía and Spain.
[5] Kirsti Blom led the foreign work in the Norwegian Writers' Association when she was a board member there from 1990 to 1996.