| Minda Ramm | |
| Birth Name: | Minda Mathea Olava Ramm |
| Birth Date: | 27 December 1859 |
| Birth Place: | Sogndal, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Occupation: | writer |
Minda Mathea Olava Ramm (27 December 1859 – 11 April 1924) was a Norwegian novelist, translator and literary critic.
Ramm was born in Sogndal,[1] to Vally Marie Caroline Juell and parish priest Jens Ludvig Carl Olsen.[2] While being a student in Kristiania, she was a founding member of the women's discussion society, a forerunner to the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.[3] Ramm served as the society's first secretary, while the other five co-founders were Cecilie Thoresen, Anna Bugge,, Marie Holst, and Betzy Børresen (later Kjelsberg).[4] Ramm graduated as cand.real. in 1890.[1] In 1893 she married writer Hans E. Kinck.[2] Shortly after their marriage, the couple travelled to Paris, where they stayed for about one year.[5]
Ramm made her literary debut in 1896, with the novel Lommen ("The Pocket"), where a female student tells her story. Later books include Overtro. Skildringer fra ottiårene ("Superstition. Narratives from the Eighties") (1898), a psychological study. Further the satirical Valgaar ("Election Year") from 1909, and finally Fotfæste ("Footgrip") from 1918,[1] [6] which has been described as her major work.[3]