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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • governor Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress Sigrid Bonde Tusvik (born 1980), Norwegian television presenter and entertainer Sigrid Undset, Norwegian...
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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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  • 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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  • Gunnar's Daughter (category Novels by Sigrid Undset)
    Daughter (1909) is a short novel written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset (1882-1949). This was Undset's first historical novel, set at the beginning of the 11th...
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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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  • 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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    (b. 1910) June 10 Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist (b. 1873) Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) Carl Vaugoin, Austrian...
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  • criticized for this at the time by figures including Clemens von Galen, Sigrid Undset, Dietrich von Hildebrand, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Jorge Luis Borges. Even...
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    Idrettslag 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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    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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    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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  • Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter...
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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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  • English. Her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 2001, and Peter...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Skagestad, Jørgen Langhelle, Lena Endre and Sverre Anker Ousdal, based Sigrid Undset on trilogy of historical novels Kristin Lavransdatter. The film was...
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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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    Ernst, Darrell Figgis, William Inge, Michael Sadleir, Matilde Serao, Sigrid Undset (awarded in 1928), Ludwig von Pastor, Israel Zangwill. There were three...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Gjellerup Pontoppidan Spitteler Hamsun Yeats Shaw Beckett Reymont Deledda Undset Mann Karlfeldt Galsworthy Bunin Pirandello du Gard Sillanpää Jensen Hesse...
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  • and Metzger also collaborated on translations of the Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset and the Danish writer Herman Bang. Hammar, teaching at a lycee in France...
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    generations of undergraduates to Gabriel Marcel, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Sigrid Undset, Paul Claudel, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In 1939, Waldemar Gurian founded...
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