Today is the birthday of the Norwegian writer Sigrid Undst, who fled her country to the United States after the arrival of Nazism in Norway. She received a… Nobel Prize in Literature In 1928, she was born from a middle-class family. The archaeologist Ingvald Martin Onset passed away when she was still 11 years old. The family’s economic situation was weak, which forced her to give up hope of a university education. After a one-year secretarial course, she obtained a job at the age of 16 years. As a secretary in an engineering company.
Sigrid began her first attempt at writing a novel, a Nordic historical novel set in medieval Denmark, at the age of 16. The novel was ready when she was 22 and was rejected by the publishing house.
Two years later, she worked on another manuscript, smaller than the first, at only 80 pages. She set aside the Middle Ages and instead produced a realistic account of a woman from a middle-class background in contemporary Christiania. This book was initially rejected by publishers but was later accepted. In the opening of the novel, the words of the main character were written for readers: “I have been unfaithful to my husband.”
Her literary appearance began with a short novel when she was 25 years old, and it was based on a contemporary background about adultery, which caused a stir, which classified her as a promising young author in Norway. She then joined the Norwegian Authors’ Union in 1907, and from 1933 until 1935 she headed its literary council, and worked Ending up as union president from 1936 until 1940.
Sigrid Undst’s books sold well from the beginning, and after publishing her third book, she quit her office job and prepared to live on her income as a writer. Having secured a writer’s scholarship, she embarked on a long journey in Europe. After brief stops in Denmark and Germany, she continued her journey to Italy. She arrived in Rome in December 1909, where she remained for nine months, making friends within the circle of Scandinavian artists and writers in Rome.
In the years between 1920 and 1927, she first published the three-volume Christine, then the 4-volume Olaf, translated into English. At the end of the 1930s, she began work on a new historical novel set in eighteenth-century Scandinavia. The first volume was published. Only, Madame Dorothea, World War II broke out that same year and she set out to break it, both as a writer and as a woman. She did not complete her new novel, when Joseph Stalin’s invasion of Finland led to the outbreak of the Winter War. She supported the Finnish war effort by donating her Nobel Prize on January 25. 1940.
When Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, she was forced to flee. She had been a harsh critic of Hitler since the early 1930s, and from an early date her books were banned in Nazi Germany. She then returned to Norway after the liberation in 1945. She lived for another four years but did not… Another word was published, and she passed away on June 10, 1949.
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