Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was born on 20 May 1882 in Kalundborg, Denmark, and in 1893 lost her father, the archaeologist Ingvald Undset. From 1899 she worked as a secretary in an engineering firm in Kristiania. Received into the Catholic Church in 1924, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. In 1940 she reached the United States by way of Sweden, the Soviet Union and Japan, then returned to Norway in 1945. She died in Lillehammer on 10 June 1949.

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• NovelKristin LavransdatterSigrid Undset · 1922LiteraturePublic domain