![]() ![]() Her work fell into obscurity during the latter half of the 20th cent., but interest in her writing was revived beginning in the 1990s, sparked by the publication of new and improved translations. She was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]() Undset came to the United States after the Nazi invasion of Norway (1940) and made a successful lecture tour of the country before returning home in 1945. 1940), and the autobiographical The Longest Years (1934, tr. Her later works include tales of contemporary family life, among them Ida Elisabeth (1932, tr. It was followed by the excessively detailed and more explicitly religious Olav Audunsson (4 vol., 1925–27 tr. 1923––2000), considered her masterpiece, tells of love and religion in medieval Norway. Kristin Lavransdatter (3 vol., 1920–22 tr. Undset is most famous for her historical novels dealing with universal human problems. ![]() Her writing, always powerfully ethical, deepened in religious intensity after her conversion (1924) to Roman Catholicism. 2001), were frank and realistic works in which she described women's struggles for selfhood in a male-dominated society but nonetheless strongly upheld traditional social structures. Her early novels of contemporary life, among them Jenny (1911 tr. Poverty forced Undset to do secretarial work for a time (1898–1908). Undset, Sigrid sĭ´grĭd o͝on´sĕt, 1882–1949, Norwegian novelist. ![]()
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