![]() ![]() Her novel Vaaren, 1914, and her short story collections Splinten av trollspeilet, 1917, De kloge jomfruer, 1918, and subsequent works reflect her time as a mother and housewife. Sigrid Undset made her debut in 1907 with her novel about marriage Fru Marta Oulie, followed by Den lykkelige alder (SS), 1908, and made her breakthrough with Jenny, 1911, a novel about a young woman artist who places high demands, not only on art, but also on love and, not least, on herself. In 1945 she returned to a home that had been razed to the ground. From 1935 to 1940, she was chair of the Norwegian Authors’ Union until she was forced to flee to the USA due to her resistance activities against the Nazis. ![]() She divorced in 1924 after twelve years of marriage, converting to Catholicism in the same year. ![]() After brief commercial training, she found employment as a secretary, travelled at the age of twenty-seven to Rome on a scholarship, and met her husband, the painter Anders C. ![]() She was born in Denmark and grew up in an intellectual civil servant community in Christiania as the daughter of the well-known Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Martin Undset. Sigrid Undset received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 and was a prominent figure in modern Norwegian realism. ![]()
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