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  • The site has one paragraph each devoted to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Hamsun and Sigrid Undset.

    Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Fighting or Whitewashing Nazism: Will the Real Norway Please Stand up? 2009

  • And there's an interesting feature:to the extent the list can be assumed to tell anything – old Nordic sagas and writers like especially Sigrid Undset, but also Rolvaag, Hamsun and Ibsen seem to be selling quite well in the US.

    Archive 2009-12-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Considering the prodigious output of 19th and 20th century Scandinavian historical novelists like Jonas Lie, J.P. Jacobsen, Verner von Heidenstam , Sigrid Undset, Selma Lagerlöf, Knut Hamsun, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and nearer to our own time Väinö Linna, Ulla-Lena Lundberg and Carsten Jensen, it's surprising that more of their work hasn't been translated.

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • And there's an interesting feature:to the extent the list can be assumed to tell anything – old Nordic sagas and writers like especially Sigrid Undset, but also Rolvaag, Hamsun and Ibsen seem to be selling quite well in the US.

    Bestsellers David McDuff 2009

  • The only other book I have ever read that came anywhere close, is Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset.

    Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Headed to the Big Screen « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • The narrator of The Danish Poet considers these questions as we follow Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer, Sigrid Undset.

    The Danish Poet » Fanboy.com 2007

  • Some notably successful examples are the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset and Katherine by Anya Seton.

    Review of Sylvia, by Bryce Courtenay 2006

  • Some notably successful examples are the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset and Katherine by Anya Seton.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Jeff saw this before I did, but over at Salon, Vollmann does Norway, as only Vollmann can, and even manages to get in a large plug for the works of Sigrid Undset.

    Vollmann Alert : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006

  • The author of the books, Sigrid Undset, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which doesn't mean that anyone in the U.S. has necessarily heard of her.

    Movies to watch when your husband's out for the evening. dennis_obell 2005

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