El Confidencial: La historia de la escritora noruega Sigrid Undset, ganadora del Nobel de Literatura en 1928: ahora el Vaticano quiere beatificarla
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Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
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culture · Norwegian novelist (1882–1949) · novelist · translator · writer · screenwriter · prose writer · poet · also Sigrid Undset, Undset
Born 20 May 1882 · Died 10 June 1949 · Q80889
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2026· 5 entries
National Catholic Register: Why Sigrid Undset Still Speaks to the Church — and Where to Start Reading
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National Catholic Register: Sigrid Undset’s Surprising Epilogue — and Why ‘Her Writing Opens Up the Whole World of Christendom to Modern Readers’
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UCA News: Norwegian Church to open famed novelist Sigrid Undset's cause for canonization
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During his sermon at Seljumannamesse, bishop Fredrik Hansen of the Catholic Diocese of Oslo announced the initiation of the canonization process for Sigrid Undset
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Sigrid Undset - et kvinneliv - Where to Watch
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2022· 2 entries
America Magazine: Sigrid Undset on lies, truths and the Catholic writer
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America Magazine: Sigrid Undset
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2021· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Sigrid Undset and Complete Book Reviews
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2018· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Inside the Gate: Sigrid Undset's Life at Bjerkebæk
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1997· 1 entry
The first volume of Tiina Nunnally's new translation of the work won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in the category of translation
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1995· 1 entry
The first volume was the basis for a commercial film, Kristin Lavransdatter, directed by Liv Ullmann
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1954· 1 entry
It was republished by Ignatius Press in 2009
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1949· 2 entries
Died 1949-06-10.
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“Wyłączone z formy Kościoła katolickiego, całe chrześcijaństwo wydaje mi się nieudanym, rozbitym omletem.”
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (1947).
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1940· 2 entries
Undset and her younger son left neutral Sweden then crossed the Soviet Union via the Trans-Siberian Railroad before arriving as a political refugee in the United States
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Because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, but returned after the end of World War II in Europe in 1945
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1934· 1 entry
Published Eleven Years Old, an autobiographical work
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1928· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1928).
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For which she was nominated by Helga Eng, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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1919· 1 entry
Moved to Lillehammer, a small town in the Gudbrand Valley in southeast Norway, taking her two children with her, while her husband stayed in Italy
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1912· 1 entry
And went to stay in London for six months
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1907· 1 entry
And from 1933 through 1935 headed its Literary Council, eventually serving as the union's chairwoman from 1935 until 1940
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-05-20.
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