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 ...

It’s a “This, not that” kind of convert story. Sigrid Undset entered the Church in 1924, having already become famous for the novel Kristin Lavransdatter, a profoundly Catholic story set in medieval ...

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.

THE UNKNOWN SIGRID UNDSET Jenny and Other Works Edited by Tim Page Translation from the Danish by Tina Nunnally; Steerforth Press: 424 pp., $30 Sigrid Undset was born in Denmark in 1882 but grew up in ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...