Inside the Gate

Autorentext
Nan Bentzen Skille is a Norwegian author who has written extensively about Sigrid Undset. In 1997, she cofounded the Sigrid Undset Society and assisted the Maihaugen Museum with the restoration of Undset’s historic home in Lillehammer, Norway.Tiina Nunnally is the award-winning translator of Sigrid Undset’s novels Kristin Lavransdatter, Jenny, and Marta Oulie (Minnesota, 2014). Her many translations from the Scandinavian languages include Vidar Sundstøl’s Minnesota Trilogy (Minnesota, 2013–15).

Zusammenfassung
"Inside the Gate offers readers a rare glimpse into Sigrid Undset's life at her home, Bjerkebk now a museum and national landmark in Lillehammer, Norway. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, Nan Bentzen Skille's lively narrative presents an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize winner's intense emotional life and creative endeavors, with Bjerkebk at the center of it all"--

Inhalt
Contents
Foreword
Lillehammer Station – Disembark on the right
Sigrid Undset makes herself a home
With an office in “Norway’s most beautiful home”
The “guesthouse” that became the “priest’s house”
The garden – “the third loveliest” in the world
The children at Bjerkebæk
Mathea Mortenstuen
Miniature theaters and other sorts of drama
The Nobel Prize comes to Lillehammer
The difficult thirties
“Fight for all that you hold dear”
The curtain falls
Epilogue
Notes
Chronology
Photo credits

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