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{{Short description|Norwegian novelist (1882–1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sigrid Undset | honorific_suffix = [[Third Order of Saint Dominic|TOSD]] | image = Sigrid Undset 1928.jpg | imagesize = 200px | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|5|20|df=y}}<ref name=kalundborg1882>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Kirkebog |location=Vor Frue Sogn ([[Kalundborg]]) |series=1880–1892 |chapter=Fødte Kvindekøn |page=166 |year=1882 |quote=Doktor philosof Ingvald Martin Undset og Hustru Anna Marie Charlotte Nicoline, født Gyth, 26 Aar 1/2 |language=da}}</ref> | birth_place = [[Kalundborg]], Denmark<ref name=kalundborg1882/> | death_date = {{death date and age|1949|6|10|1882|5|20|df=y}} | death_place = [[Lillehammer]], Norway | occupation = Writer | nationality = Norwegian, Danish | spouse = {{marriage |[[Anders Castus Svarstad]] |1912|1927|reason=dissolved }} | children = 3 | relatives = {{ubl |Ingvald Martin Undset (father)<ref name=kalundborg1882/> |Anna Marie Charlotte Nicoline née Gyth (mother)<ref name=kalundborg1882/> }} | awards = {{awd|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|1928}} }} '''Sigrid Undset''' ({{IPA|no|ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt}}; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a [[Danish people|Danish]]-born [[Norwegian people|Norwegian]] novelist. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1928 Nobel Prize in Literature|1928]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nbl.snl.no/Sigrid_Undset|title=Sigrid Undset|first=Liv|last=Bliksrud|date=28 September 2014|website=Nbl.snl.no|access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref> 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 [[Operation Weserübung|German invasion]] and [[German occupation of Norway|occupation]] of Norway, but returned after [[World War II]] ended in 1945. Her best-known work is ''[[Kristin Lavransdatter]]'', a trilogy about life in Norway in the [[Middle Ages]], portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death. Its three volumes were published between 1920 and 1922.
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