Sigrid Undset

Nor­we­gian nov­el­ist (1882–1949)

[ad]

Wrote about Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries in the Mid­dle Ages. [to.sci.fi/undset.htm”>more] [wiki]

Became a Catholic in 1924.

Award­ed Nobel Prize for lit­er­a­ture in 1928. [more]
[tobio.html”>autobio]

Her mod­ernist nov­els vivid­ly depict medieval life

Books

[amazonify]0143039164::text::::Kristin Lavrans­dat­ter[/amazonify]

[amazonify]0679752730::text::::The Axe: The Mas­ter of Hestviken, vol 1[/amazonify]

[amazonify]014118020X::text::::Gun­nar’s Daugh­ter[/amazonify]

[amazonify]1586420216::text::::The Unknown Sigrid Und­set: Jen­ny and Oth­er Works[/amazonify]

[ad]

Articles and info

“Read­ing Sigrid Und­set” by Cyn­thia Gre­nier, CERC (1999).

By degrees my knowl­edge of history con­vinced me that the only thor­ough­ly sane peo­ple, of our civ­i­liza­tion at least, seemed to be those queer men and women the Catholic Church calls Saints. They seemed to know the true expla­na­tion of man’s undy­ing hunger for hap­pi­ness — his trag­i­cal­ly insuf­fi­cient love of peace, jus­tice, and good­will to his fel­low men, his ever­last­ing fall from grace.

For further reference

[amazonify]0143039164[/amazonify] [amazonify]0679752730[/amazonify] [amazonify]014118020X[/amazonify] [amazonify]1586420216[/amazonify]

First published on July 31st, 2009 at 8:46 am (EST) and last modified on July 31st, 2009 at 8:51 am (EST).

Better Tag Cloud