Nina Karin Monsen

Nina Karin Monsen
Nina Karin Monsen at the Fritt Ord Award ceremony in 2009
Born	(1943-05-29) May 29, 1943 (age 74)
Era	20th Century, 21st Century
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Feminist philosophy, Personalism

Nina Karin Monsen (born 29 May 1943 in Bergen) is a Norwegian moral philosopher and author. She has written several books, both non-fiction and fiction, and has been active in Norwegian public debate since the early 1970s.

Monsen has a Magister's degree in Philosophy (1969) and was one of the founders of the Norwegian new feminist movement in 1970. Her early work was on the logician Quine and she later studied feminist philosophy. She has become the most visible proponent of Personalism in Norway, with Det elskende menneske (The loving human being, 1987) as her most central work.

Monsen grew up in a humanist family, but later converted to Christianity through philosophic thinking. Recently, Monsen has been a strong opponent of the introduction of same-sex marriage in Norway and lectures in evangelical churches.

She was appointed a government scholar in 2004. In 2009, she was awarded the Fritt Ord Award.

She was married to legal scholar Helge Johan Thue until he died in 2010.