Mikkjel Fønhus (14 March 1894 – 28 October 1973) was a Norwegian journalist, novelist and short story writer.
[3] His breakthrough came with the next book, Der Vildmarken suser (1919),[1] inspired by Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
[3] In 1926 he wrote the novel Reinsbukken på Jotunfjell, in 1927 the collection Vandringen mot nord, and in 1929 Skogenes eventyrer, stories about a fox.
His books sold well and with the growing ecology movement, Mikkjel Fønhus appeared as a pioneer in the fight for preserving nature.
He work has been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, French, English, Dutch, Czech and Polish.