A century after the world-famous Nobel Prize winner’s conversion, and her subsequent fervent prayers for Norwegian vocations, Mathias Ledum is the first man to be ordained to holy orders from her home ...

KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER: The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, The Cross. One volume Nobel Prize Edition ($3). THE MASTER OF HESTVIKEN: The Axe, The Snake Pit. ($3 each). By Sigrid Undset.—Knopf.

“Providence” follows “Vows,” the first volume in the Nobel-Prize-winning Sigrid Undset’s tetrology, “Olav Audunsson,” set in the 13th century and published in Norwegian in 1925 and 1927. The books, ...

Sigrid Undset walked into the manager’s office of the Aschehoug publishing company, one of the largest in Norway, and tossed G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man (1925) onto his desk, exclaiming that ...

GUNNAR’S DAUGHTER—Sigrid Undset— Knopf ($2). In company with a good many contemporary European novelists, Sigrid Undset has a faculty for making the life of the past appear rich and meaningful in ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in America on June 13, 1942. [A paper read at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, New York, May 24.—Literary ...

Sigrid Undset, trans. from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally. Univ. of Minnesota, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1048-8 This sweeping epic of 13th-century Norway by Nobel winner Undset ...

Set in the early years of the 14 th century, "Crossroads" is the third volume of Norwegian Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset's tetralogy, "Olav Audunssøn." Given that it's one part of a whole, you'll be ...

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