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Name: Sigrid Undset
Birth Date: May 20, 1882
Death Date: June 10, 1949
Place of Birth: Kalundborg, Denmark
Place of Death: Lillehammer, Norway
Nationality: Norwegian
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Sigrid Undset
480 words, approx. 2 pages
The Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was internationally acclaimed for the historical novel Kristen Lavransdatter. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1928. Sigrid Undset was born on May 20, 1882, in Kalundborg, Denmark, the daughter...
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Biography of Sigrid Undset
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Sigrid Undset brought to her writing an extensive knowledge of the Middle Ages and a sharp sense of the contradictions in the life of the modern individual. She wrote poetry and drama, but prose was the principal form in which she expressed herself....


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Undset, Sigrid
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(born May 20, 1882, Kalundborg, Den.—died June 10, 1949, Lillehammer, Nor.) Norwegian novelist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her father was an archaeologist, and her home life was steeped in legend, folklore, and the...
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Undset, Sigrid
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(born May 20, 1882, Kalundborg, Den.—died June 10, 1949, Lillehammer, Nor.) Norwegian novelist. Her father was an archaeologist, and her home life was steeped in legend, folklore, and Norwegian history. Her early novels deal with the position of...
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Sigrid Undset Information
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Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to...


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Scandinavian Studies
Sigrid Undset. The Unknown Sigrid Undset. (book review)
03/22/2002: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
Edited with an Introduction by Tim Page, with a new translation by Tiina Nunnally. South Royalton, VT: Steefforth, 2001. Pp. xvi + 406. $30.00. The main feature of this omnibus is Tiina Nunnally's new translation of Jenny, the 1911 novel that caused...
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Publishers Weekly
THE UNKNOWN SIGRID UNDSET: Jenny and Other Works.(Review) (book review)
04/30/2001: 314 words, approx. 1 pages
SIGRID UNDSET, EDITED BY TIM PAGE, TRANS. FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY TIINA NUNNALLY AND NAOMI WALFORD. Steerforth (PGW, dist.), $30 (424p) ISBN 1-58642-021-6 Norwegian writer Undset (1882-1949) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 for her epic medieval trilogy, Kristin...
 


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