Sigrid Undset

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

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Sigrid Undset was a writer whose professional career spanned from 1907 until 1949. She was recognized within the Nobel Literature collection.

She received one Nobel Prize. Her body of work includes one recorded item.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1928
“principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Sigrid
Gender: female
Citizenship: Norway
Place of birth: Kalundborg
Place of death: Lillehammer
Spouse: Anders Castus Svarstad
Father: Ingvald Undset
Occupation: poet
Languages spoken: Norwegian
Religion: Catholicism
Award: Order of the Falcon
Field of work: hagiography
Genre: historical prose literature
Image: Sigrid Undset 1928.jpg
Work location: New York City
Significant event: religious conversion
Religious order: Dominican Order

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Commons category: Sigrid Undset
date of birth: 1882-05-20
date of death: 1949-06-10
member of: American Geographical Society
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
Commons Creator page: Sigrid Undset
name in native language: Sigrid Undset
start of work period: 1907-00-00
end of work period: 1949-00-00
writing language: Norwegian
P6944: Sigrid Undset
P8168: North by Northwest
has works in the collection: Anne Frank House

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Encyclopedic overview

Sigrid Undset ( Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt]; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, but returned after the end of World War II in Europe in 1945.

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