Today is the anniversary of the death in 1949 of Norwegian author
Sigrid Undset. She won the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
I discovered
Kristin Lavransdatter in young adulthood and loved it. I have a 3-volume hardback edition of the Charles Archer translation, but I'd love to get the new (2005) translation by
Tiina Nunnally someday. I discovered
The Master of Hestviken later, and I have a one-volume hardback edition of the Arthur G. Chater translation.
There are short biographies
here and
here. A picture of the stamp bearing her portrait is
here.
There is a review of Kristin Lavransdatter
here and a reading guide
here. The work was
adapted for film in 1995.
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