Sigrid Undset (Author of Kristin Lavransdatter)

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Sigrid Undset

Born

in Kalundborg, Denmark

May 20, 1882

Died

June 10, 1949

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Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. She fled Norway in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after the end of World War II in 1945.

Sigrid Undset received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Most of the praise was for her medieval novels, including the trilogy about Kristin Lavransdatter. This trilogy has been translated into more than 80 languages and is among the world鈥檚 most read novels.

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	Kristin Lavransdatter 4.31 avg rating — 13,478 ratings — published 1920 — 275 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1) by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 9,056 ratings — published 1920 — 173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2) by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally (Editor), Sherrill Harbison (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 4,698 ratings — published 1921 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3) 4.33 avg rating — 3,782 ratings — published 1922 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset, Sherrill Harbison (Editor), Arthur G. Chater (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 1,817 ratings — published 1909 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catherine of Siena 4.37 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 1951 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jenny by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 1,324 ratings — published 1911	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olav Audunss酶n: I. Vows (Volume 1) by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 1925 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snake Pit (The Master of Hestviken, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 1925 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Son Avenger (The Master of Hestviken, #4) 4.53 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1926 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sigrid Undset (?)

“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”
― Sigrid Undset

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“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Wreath

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“Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Wife

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March 2016 New School Group Read

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages

26 votes, 13.0%

1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages

24 votes, 12.0%

1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages

20 votes, 10.0%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages

19 votes, 9.5%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages

14 votes, 7.0%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages

14 votes, 7.0%

1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages

12 votes, 6.0%

1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages

11 votes, 5.5%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 5.5%

1927, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 297 pages

9 votes, 4.5%

1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages

9 votes, 4.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

8 votes, 4.0%

1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages

8 votes, 4.0%

1958, The Tin Drum by G眉nter Grass, 567 pages

5 votes, 2.5%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages

4 votes, 2.0%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

200 total votes

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