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This digital document, covering the life and work of Sigrid Undset, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 5168 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Sigrid Undset, Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Gunvor Hofmo, Amalie Skram, Ragnhild Jølsen, Anne-Cath. Vestly, Camilla Collett, Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Gerd Brantenberg, Britt Karin Larsen, Aimée Sommerfelt, Bergljot Hobæk Haff, Marie Takvam, Trude Brænne Larssen, Cecilie Løveid, Aslaug Vaa, Alvilde Prydz, Marie Hamsun, Bjørg Vik. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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 Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after World War II ended in 1945. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a modernist trilogy about life in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. The book was set in medieval Norway and was published from 1920 to 1922 in three volumes. Kristin Lavransdatter portrays the life of woman from birth until death. Undset was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for this trilogy as well as her two books about Olav Audunssøn, published in 1925 and 1927. Undset experimented with modernist tropes such as stream of consciousness in her novel, although the original English translation by Charles Archer excised many of these passages. In 1997, the first volume of Tiina Nunnally's new translation of the work won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in the category of translation. The names of each volume were translated by Archer as The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, and The Cross, and by Nunally as The Wreath, The Wife, and The Cross. Sigrid Undset was born on 20 May 1882, at Kalundbo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29236 ... Read more