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Sigrid Undset

1882 - 1949

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Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt]; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. 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 Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, but returned after World War II ended in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sigrid Undset is the 190th most popular writer (up from 212th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Writer.

Sigrid Undset is most famous for her historical novel, Kristin Lavransdatter.

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Among writers, Sigrid Undset ranks 190 out of 7,302. Before her are Catullus, Taras Shevchenko, Murasaki Shikibu, Lope de Vega, John Steinbeck, and Adam Mickiewicz. After her are Halldór Laxness, Petronius, Georges Simenon, Tove Jansson, Fuzûlî, and Johannes V. Jensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Sigrid Undset ranks 8. Before her are Igor Stravinsky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, and Georges Braque. After her are Max Born, Georgi Dimitrov, Ion Antonescu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Emmy Noether, and Günther von Kluge. Among people deceased in 1949, Sigrid Undset ranks 3. Before her are Maurice Maeterlinck, and Richard Strauss. After her are George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Leonard Bloomfield, Kim Jong-suk, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, and James Ensor.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Sigrid Undset ranks 16 out of 1,032. Before her are Margaret I of Denmark (1353), Christian X of Denmark (1870), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Vitus Bering (1681), Christian VIII of Denmark (1786), and Maria Feodorovna (1847). After her are Johannes V. Jensen (1873), John, King of Denmark (1455), Ivar the Boneless (900), Ole Rømer (1644), Christian VI of Denmark (1699), and Gorm the Old (900).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Sigrid Undset ranks 3. Before her are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), and Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857). After her are Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Karen Blixen (1885), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), Sven Hassel (1917), and Martin Andersen Nexø (1869).

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