![]() ![]() Lauder, a frequent film and book reviewer for America for many years, argued that Kristin Lavransdatter “ is the greatest Catholic novel ever written.”įormer editor in chief Drew Christiansen, S.J., put Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy “near the top of my all-time favorite list.”īorn in 1882 in Kalundborg, Denmark, Sigrid Undset moved to Norway with her family when she was two and grew up in Oslo (known then as Kristiania), the capital of Norway. After entering the Jesuits years later, he discovered the trilogy “to be the favorite of Jesuit seminarians in the late 1950s, perhaps because for many, still in their teens, it was a rare romantic experience.” The Rev. literary and political journals-including America.įormer editor in chief Drew Christiansen, S.J., put Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy “ near the top of my all-time favorite list.” Former literary editor Raymond Schroth, S.J., remembered his father reading Kristin Lavransdatter aloud to his mother as she knitted in the evenings. ![]() When she fled to the United States after the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940, she became a frequent contributor to U.S. The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928, Undset was a leading figure of the Norwegian intelligentsia in the 1920s and 1930s. Who’s your favorite Catholic novelist? A number of America editors and contributors over the years have answered that question with a surprising name-or at least a name that might surprise us in 2022: Sigrid Undset. ![]()
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