Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt]; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel...
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Catholic Church in Norway (section Sigrid Undset)
Prelature of Tromsø. In November 1924 the well-known Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset was received into the Catholic Church after thorough instruction from...
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and entertainer Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Valdis, American actress Sigrid Wille, German skier Sigrid Wolf, Austrian...
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nominated, namely Grazia Deledda (awarded in 1926), Matilde Serao and Sigrid Undset (awarded in 1928). The authors Hugo Bettauer, George Washington Cable...
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Prize in Literature was awarded to the Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life...
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Kristin Lavransdatter (category Novels by Sigrid Undset)
Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of historical novels written by Sigrid Undset. The individual novels are Kransen (The Wreath), first published in 1920...
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Orchid is a novel by the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Undset first published the novel in Norwegian as...
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Jenny (novel) (category Novels by Sigrid Undset)
Jenny is a novel by the Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset, published in 1911, and regarded as Undset's literary breakthrough. The novel is set in Rome and...
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writers include the two Nobel Prize-winning authors, Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset. The period after 1965 represented a sharp expansion of market for Norwegian...
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include Knut Hamsun's later work, Sigrid Undset, Johan Falkberget, and Olaf Bull. Both Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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were Christina, Queen of Sweden, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus; and Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter. The number of...
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Margrethe Lendrop (1873–1920) operatic soprano at the Royal Danish Theatre Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) a Norwegian novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
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The Master of Hestviken (category Novels by Sigrid Undset)
Master of Hestviken is a tetralogy about medieval Norway written by Sigrid Undset. It was originally published in Norwegian as two volumes Olav Audunssøn...
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that Sigrid Undset would have turned in her grave. As the festival has as its subsidiary name "Sigrid Undset Days", a representative of Undset's family...
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orchid The Wild Orchid (book), a 1929 novel by the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset, winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. Wild Orchids (film),...
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Heidenstam, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen...
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some period in their life. For instance, Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset grew up in Oslo, and described her life there in the autobiographical...
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Heidenstam, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen...
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every February. Kalle Løchen (1865–1893), a Norwegian painter and actor Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), a novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928;...
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founder of The Sigrid Undset Society (1997) and author of the first biography in English of the Nobel Prize Laureate (1928) Sigrid Undset (1882–1949). Skille...
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National Gallery of Norway Sigrid Undset, 1911, Bergen Art Museum Fabrikker ved Themsen, 1912, Bergen Art Museum Sigrid Undset, 1912, Den norske forfatterforening...
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Hamsun for the book Markens grøde ("Growth of the Soil") in 1920, and Sigrid Undset (known for Kristin Lavransdatter) in 1928. With expansive forests, Norway...
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corner. 500 kroner note (outdated) The 500 kroner note (1999) portrays Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927...
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Morgenbladet compiled a list of 28,000 signatures against the proposal. Sigrid Undset wrote that she would be ashamed if the city would try to cheat and pretend...
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about Sigrid Undset, the Danish-born Norwegian author of Kristin Lavransdatter. Moved by the plot of the Nobel Prize winner's novel, Kaspar sends Sigrid Undset...
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published in 2001. He has helped launch revivals of the writings of Sigrid Undset and Robert Green Ingersoll, and he wrote an appreciation of the late...
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focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing. Chopin's most important stylistic legacy is the detachment...
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Olivier in a principal rôle. December 10 – Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "principally for her powerful...
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Lykkelige dager) is a memoir by Norwegian Nobel Prize winning writer Sigrid Undset. In it, she describes her children's life in Norway before the Nazi...
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worldwide organization of lay members of the Catholic Church. 1928: Sigrid Undset wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. February 11, 1929: The Lateran Treaty...
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