Sigrid Undset - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1928
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Sigrid Undset

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1928
principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages
Citizenship
NorwayNorway
Languages
Norwegian
date of birth
5/20/1882
place of birth
Kalundborg
date of death
6/10/1949
place of death
Lillehammer
Lived
67 years

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occupation
  • prose writer
  • screenwriter
  • translator
  • writer
  • poet
  • novelist
field of work
  • hagiography
educated at
  • Fru Ragna Nielsens skole
work location
  • New York City
    • start time: 1941
    • end time: 1945
member of
  • Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
  • American Geographical Society
notable work
  • Jenny
  • Kristin Lavransdatter
  • The Master of Hestviken
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