Wenche Blomberg

Wenche Blomberg (23 June 1943 – 27 October 2023) was a Norwegian author, journalist, librarian, criminologist and government scholar.

Wenche Blomberg was born on 23 June 1943 in Tønsberg, and grew up in Tjøme, Vestfold.

She wrote many children's books, such as Appelsinenes land (1980), about the everyday life of children in Palestine from 1947–1948, the picture book Jeg skal få en katt (1983), Kiai!

(1987) and the picture book Vesle Perlegrå (2004) with illustrations by Bo Gaustad.

Blomberg won the Kulturdepartementets bildebokpris in 1983, the NBU-prisen in 1992, and Norway's research council's interpretation prize in 2006.