Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (born in Kalundborg, Denmark, 1882; died in Lillehammer, Norway, 1949) was a Norwegian novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature for 1928. Undset was born in Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was 2 years old. In 1924 she converted to Catholicism. Her best-known work in English is Kristen Lavransdatter, a monumental trilogy about life in Scandinavia in the middle ages, published from 1920-1922.

Links:

• http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1928/
• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/undset.htm
• http://www.undset.no/susenglish2.html