Undset

It is somewhat surprising that Waugh took so little interest in Undset (1882-1949).

Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1922 (Penguin Classics, 2005)

Evelyn Waugh, Sigrid Undset, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Georges Bernanos were among the authors he read--"one after another"--as he grappled with Catholicism.

The function was preceded by a screening of Kristin Lavransdatter, a 1995 film she directed and scripted, based on the first book in Sigrid Undset's classic trilogy.

Norwegian composer and pianist Ketil Bjornstad was invited to compose the music for the National Theatre's production Undset, about the tragic life of author and Nobel prizewinner Sigrid Undset.

The work includes numerous other exceptional women, many of them well known, such as Hildegard von Bingen, Joan of Arc, Mary Wollstonecraft, Amelia Bloomer, Coco Chanel, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sigrid Undset, Frida Kahlo, Julia Child, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, Anne Frank, Margaret Thatcher, Aretha Franklin, Chris Evert, and Oprah Winfrey.

She recommends Lawrence, Steffens, Jeffers, Somerset Maugham, and her contemporaries Hemingway and Wolfe, though her most enthusiastic recommendations are reserved for the work of other women writers: Mansfield, whose work she most passionately admired, Stein, Sigrid Undset, Virginia Woolf, Kay Boyle, and Rebecca West.

The scientist and northern lights researcher Kristian Birkeland decorates the 200-krone note, while author and Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset was chosen for the 500-krone note.

She never came to play the role onscreen, but after "Sophie" she directed the Sigrid Undset classic for Norsk Film.

The foursome were given their hardest race yet by the new Norwegian crew of Kjetil Undset, Sture Bjoervig, Steffen Stoerseth and Nils Torolv Simonsen, who teamed up only four weeks ago and set a new world-best time in Friday's heats.

Powers and Leon Bloy, Evelyn Waugh and Sigrid Undset, David Lodge and Walker Percy stretch the definition of the "canonical" form of the Catholic novel almost beyond recognition.

The collection's other patterns are; Udoro, large squares in grid formation; Ukraine, grids containing leaves; Umango, a novelty scenic with tropical patios; Undset, a panel stripe with cross-hatches and dots; U-Tibaldi, floating block-print leaves; and Utlidge, tossed foliage.

(FO 371/23675/N 3272) Norwegian Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset was author of novels which 'show a preoccupation with the past and with the sense of sin which is not characteristic of most modern Norwegians; and they are now more admired than imitated.' (FO 371/56340/N 15778) Of Axel Munthe it was reported in December 'It is the fashion in Sweden to call him a quack.' (FO 371/29677/N 459)