Linde Hagerup was born in 1968. She grew up at Rykkinn, in the outskirts of Oslo and, according to her, she comes from the least imaginative family in Norway, given the fact that nearly all family members over the last three generations became authors. Adding to that, her grandmother is still one of Norway’s most famous and beloved poets, 20 years after her death.

At the age of seventeen, Linde entered the writing school Skrivekunstakademiet in Bergen, being one of their youngest students ever, with Jon Fosse as a prominent teacher.

Later she worked in theatre administration for many years, and spent ten years co-editing the literary journal Vagant. Since her literary debut in 1999 Linde has published seven titles, first and foremost novels. In 2016 she published her first children’s novel, En bror for mye.