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Sigrid Undset [1882-1949] Norwegian
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Novelist


Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism. 

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I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. Education
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I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
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Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
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