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Undset

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Und·set  (nst), Sigrid 1882-1949.
Danish-born Norwegian writer whose novels, including the trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), concern Catholicism and the struggles of women and are often set in medieval Scandinavia. She won the 1928 Nobel Prize for literature.
Undset (Norwegian) [ˈunsɛt]
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(Biographies / Undset, Sigrid (1882-1949) F, Norwegian, WRITING: novelist) Sigrid (ˈsigri). 1882-1949, Norwegian novelist, best known for her trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-22): Nobel prize for literature 1928
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Noun1.Undset - Norwegian novelist (1882-1949)Undset - Norwegian novelist (1882-1949)      
Sigrid Undset
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Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (a Catholic convert and the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature) reappears every year because I am profoundly touched by Kristin's birth-to-death tale, which explores a universally valid human experience set in a late medieval context that can scarcely be imaginable today.
The dean's list: have you read a good book lately? A quarter century ... by Neenan, William B. / U.S. Catholic
Though beautifully thought through, deeply serious and enormously intelligent, it demonstrates that there is a reason why Freud and Kafka belong to one culture, and Ibsen and Sigrid Undset belong to another.
Secret history of Scandinavian gloom by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Sigrid Undset wrote Kristin Lavransdatter a year before she was baptized a Catholic, but she had probably been intellectually converted to the Catholic faith by the time she wrote her masterpiece.
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