Portrait of author Ida Frisch

Ida Frisch (b.1990) is a Norwegian writer represented by
Tiden Forlag.

Frisch made her debut with the novel Klør in 2018, and in the spring of 2020 she published the poetry collection Kjære Grønland.

In september 2025 she is publishing her new novel Sort Hund.

Frisch lives in the mountains of Norway with her partner and dog, where she explores a more climate-neutral life, climbs mountains and wonders what her next project will be.

Everyone said my mother slipped on the rocks, hit her head, and drowned. I know that’s not how it happened—my mother walked into the sea with a black dog and disappeared. The black dog was the devil, and my mother and the devil walked into the sea

Everyone said my mother slipped on the rocks, hit her head, and drowned. I know that’s not how it happened—my mother walked into the sea with a black dog and disappeared. The black dog was the devil, and my mother and the devil walked into the sea together, and then she was gone. It was as simple as that.

SORT HUND is on one hand a classic tale of the coast and the sea, and on the other, an expansive novel that offers the reader a glimpse into the richness of even the most windswept place.

ISBN: 9788210060670 - Cover illustration by Stian Hole

SORT HUND Available for preorder at ARK bookstore

Book launch in Oslo september 2025

The Greenland ice sheet is melting. We’ve seen the images, read the articles, and heard the scientists explain the consequences. We all know why it’s happening—but in Ida Frisch’s book Kjære Grønland, there’s no talk of the two-degree target or poi

The Greenland ice sheet is melting. We’ve seen the images, read the articles, and heard the scientists explain the consequences. We all know why it’s happening—but in Ida Frisch’s book Kjære Grønland, there’s no talk of the two-degree target or pointed fingers. Instead, the protagonist tries to understand the white island. Where is it heading? What is it becoming? Is there relief in becoming something else?

Kjære Grønland is a poem, a lament, a letter, a wished-for conversation between a human being and the world’s largest island. The book is also an attempt to rethink our relationship with nature—at a time when doing so may be more urgent than ever.

ISBN: 9788210057441

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She is soon to finish her veterinary studies. He is a gifted singer. She is searching for a way into him; he is searching for a way into the music. Their apartment is filled with sheet music and concert programs, and when he sings, it’s as if the s

She is soon to finish her veterinary studies. He is a gifted singer. She is searching for a way into him; he is searching for a way into the music. Their apartment is filled with sheet music and concert programs, and when he sings, it’s as if the song owns him. What lengths will she go to in order to make him hers again? Where is the line between love and possession? To what extent can one truly possess another person?

Klør is a feverish jealousy drama about submission and desire, told in a language that offers the reader surprises on every page.

ISBN: 9788210056369 - Cover illustration by Egil Haraldsen og Ellen Lindeberg

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Creative work

I’m always working on something creative on the side.

I do social marketing for Oslos supermarked - a annual arts and craft market in Oslo with super good vibes.

I also write for Lysløypa - a curated eat & experience guide to Oslo, Norway

In addition I write articles and essays for numerous publications and magazines.

In 2020 I produced and starred in the documentary Ida & Martin på Notholmen for the Norwegian National Television Broadcaster NRK.

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