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Norwegian novelist (born 1935)
Frid Ingulstad (born 4 September 1935) is a Norwegian novelist, primarily of historical novels, many of them series. She has often been the best selling author in Norway, and has published more than 200 books.

Ingulstad was born in Oslo. She worked for Fred. Olsen Airtransport as a stenographer and then as a flight attendant, then on the Norwegian America Line ship Idefjord as a radio telegrapher, before becoming a full time writer in 1990. Her first book, Hva livet gir deg, Camilla, was published in 1965; a travel book had been previously rejected. in 2020 the series reached 100 books with Velkommen hjem, set in 1959. Other series by her are Kongsdøtrene (the first book of which, Ingegjerd, was her 140th book, in 2007), Ildkorset, and Ingebjørg Olavsdatter. She has also written children's books, both fiction and non fiction, and a biography of Betzy Kjelsberg, Betzy. Fortellingen om en norsk foregangskvinne (2015). Ingulstad has frequently been the best selling author in Norway, She published her 200th book (in the Sønnavind series) in 2013; as of 2020 the total was 243. At its foundation in 2018, she became a member of the initial board of directors of the rival organisation no. She published an autobiography, Min historie, in 2007.

Mannemakt og mørkemakter won first prize in a contest by the publisher Dreijer. and the King's Medal of Merit in 2018. In 2017 the Riksmål Society awarded her its first personal prize.

Ingulstad married Arnulf Ingulstad, an engineer, in 1975. They have a son together, and two daughters from her first marriage. They live in the house where she was born and raised, in the Kastellet section of Nordstrand, in Oslo.