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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928

"principially for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset
Norway
b. 1882
(in Kalundborg, Denmark)
d. 1949
 
 
 
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