WRITER

Sigrid Undset

1882 - 1949

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Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt]; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published in 1907. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sigrid Undset has received more than 492,116 page views. Her biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Sigrid Undset is the 212th most popular writer (down from 184th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 13th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Writer.

Sigrid Undset is most famous for her historical novel, Kristin Lavransdatter.

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  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 98

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sigrid Undset ranks 212 out of 7,302. Before her are Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, Anacreon, and Johanna Spyri. After her are Maurice Leblanc, Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, Quintilian, and Pierre Corneille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Sigrid Undset ranks 9. Before her are James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, and Max Born. After her are Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, Abdullah I of Jordan, Ion Antonescu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, and Günther von Kluge. Among people deceased in 1949, Sigrid Undset ranks 4. Before her are Maurice Maeterlinck, Richard Strauss, and George Gurdjieff. After her are Georgi Dimitrov, Hassan al-Banna, Edward Thorndike, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, James Ensor, Charles Ponzi, and Klaus Mann.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Sigrid Undset ranks 23 out of 1,032. Before her are George I of Greece (1845), Ole Rømer (1644), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Christian IV of Denmark (1577), Sweyn Forkbeard (960), and Christian X of Denmark (1870). After her are Frederick VIII of Denmark (1843), Christian II of Denmark (1481), Alexandra of Denmark (1844), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (1946), and Christian VIII of Denmark (1786).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Sigrid Undset ranks 4. Before her are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Karen Blixen (1885), and Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857). After her are Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Sven Hassel (1917), Georg Brandes (1842), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), and Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950).

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