Maja Lunde (born 30 July 1975) is a Norwegian writer.

[1] She made her literary debut in 2012 with the children's novel Over grensen ("Across the Border"), a thriller set in 1942, where the protagonists Sarah and Daniel are Jews trying to escape murderous Nazi persecution during the German occupation of Norway, and find their way to neutral Sweden.

[2][3] She was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 2015 for the novel Bienes historie,[4] which was published with the title The History of Bees in the United States by Touchstone, a division of Simon and Schuster, in 2017.

[6] Her next book was Przevalskis hest (2019), named after Przewalski's horse, the third volume in her series on people and climate.

A fourth book in the series, Drømmen om et tre, came out in 2022.