Elisabeth Braadland Dored (22 March 1908 – 6 September 1972) was a Norwegian artist and author.

Biography

Elisabeth Sophie Wiel Braadland was born at

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(now

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) in

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, Norway. Her parents were Birger Braadland (1879-1960) and Ragna Abigael Vogt Stang (1881-1972). She studied art at the Académie Scandinave in

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under Henry de Waroquier (1881-1970) and trained at the Académie de l'Art Moderne with

Othon Friesz Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (6 February 1879 – 10 January 1949), who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement. Biography Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of s ...

(1879-1949) during 1929. She attended the

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where she studied under

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in 1931. In 1935, she married Latvian born cinematographer John Dored (1881-1954). She debuted as an author with ''For meg er jorden rund'' (1955) in which she tells about the life and career of her husband. She won the

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(''Bokhandlerprisen'') in 1964 for her historic romance novel ''Jeg elsket Tiberius''. The novel was translated into English by Naomi Walford. During 1963, the novel was published under the title ''

I Loved Tiberius {{Infobox book , name= I Loved Tiberius , title_orig= Jeg elsket Tiberius , translator= Naomi Walford , image= File:ILovedTiberius.jpg , caption= First UK edition , author= Elisabeth Dored , illustrator= , cover_artist= , country= Norwa ...

'' in Great Britain by

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and in the United States by

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1908 births 1972 deaths People from Østfold Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni 20th-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian women novelists 20th-century Norwegian women writers Norwegian artists {{Norway-writer-stub

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