Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was a <a href="/facts/Danish_people/rukzp11N">Danish</a>-born <a href="/facts/Norwegian_people/K7PdhVMG">Norwegian</a> novelist. She was awarded the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature/wWVXbIbp">Nobel Prize for Literature</a> in <a href="/facts/1928_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature/ah9JXseR">1928</a>.
Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to <a href="/facts/Nazi_Germany/8kRbqRpo">Nazi Germany</a> and the <a href="/facts/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung/wu9sAw41">German invasion</a> and <a href="/facts/German_occupation_of_Norway/QTJY0pEf">occupation</a> of Norway, but returned after <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a> ended in 1945.
Her best-known work is <a href="/facts/Kristin_Lavransdatter/DthLuSvf">Kristin Lavransdatter</a>, a trilogy about life in Norway in the <a href="/facts/Middle_Ages/RqzEKB9v">Middle Ages</a>, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death. Its three volumes were published between 1920 and 1922.

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Sigrid Undset