These are the first lines of the introduction to my thesis (sparing you of the footnotes!): Statue of Sigrid Undset by Hanne Varming in her place of birth (Kalundborg, Denmark) Norwegian author Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature, was a novelist known for her profound insights into the human condition, patterns of behaviour and their consequences, the yearning for fulfilment, transcendence, happiness and peace. She is something of a nation

After several years of hard work, my doctoral thesis has finally been received and approved by the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. I offer my heartfelt thanks to the readers of this blog who have contributed their thoughts on the various posts and their support for this project. The next phase of my work on Sigrid Undset is to turn my thesis into a book and to see if I can publish the many articles I translated. Given that Bishop Hansen of Oslo has announced his

I imagine that readers of this blog will have already heard the news: Bishop Fredrik Hansen, the bishop of the Diocese of Oslo, recently announced his intention to formally open the cause for Sigrid Undset's sainthood. I wonder how this is being and will be received in secular Norway, which already has a somewhat ambivalent view of the soon to be Servant of God! Here follows the press release from the diocese: Bishop to Open Canonisation Cause for Sigrid Undset From Selje Isl

In Undset's foreword to her own translation of Chesterton's Everlasting Man, she wrote of the challenge of rendering the master of paradox into Norwegian: " What some Frenchman said about translation particularly applies to translations of Chesterton: namely that they are like women - if they are beautiful, they are not faithful, but if they are faithful, they are not beautiful. I myself have time and again been at a loss as to how faithfully I should follow Chesterton's text