Sigrid Undset

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Standard Name: Undset, Sigrid

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10 December 1928: Sigrid Undset's powerful and evocative novelistic...

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10 December 1928

Sigrid Undset 's powerful and evocative novelistic descriptions of Scandinavian life in the Middle Ages gained her the Nobel Prize in Literature. (The British Sir Owen Willans Richardson won the prize in Physics.)
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
20 May 2009
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 May 1933: Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels,...

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10 May 1933

Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels , over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
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“Book Burning”. Holocaust Encyclopedia.
“Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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