Kaia Bruland Nilssen (1868 – 18 January 1950) was a Norwegian novelist. Beginning in 1895, she published several novellas and novels, and occasionally poems. She has been noted as writing non-pretentious trivial literature for a female audience. The book ''Aagot Vangen - et livsbillede'' from 1903 is a biographical novel about the Norwegian sculptor Aagot Vangen, who received her artistic education in Paris but died when still in her twenties. Kaia Bruland-Nilssen's most popular book was 1897's ''Sjøgutten''. She also contributed to the

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''Spidskuglen''. Bruland Nilssen resided near

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. She died in 1950.Death announcement, ''Asker og Bærums Budstikke'' 23 January 1950 p. 3

Selected works

First editions only: *''Violinspilleren'', 1895 *''Stedmoder og steddatter'', 1896 *''Sjøgutten'', 1897 *''Forstand og hjerte'', 1898 *''Tante Ellen: fortælling'', 1899 *''Aagot Vangen: et livsbillede'', 1903 *''Dagmar Norgaards veninde'', 1905 *''Skjærgaardsliv'', 1908 *''Familien Granli'', 1910 *''Gutten som visste at hjelpe sig'', 1915 *''Ungdomskjærlighet'', 1915 *''Familiens yngste'', 1917 *''Alfhild Haug'', 1920 *''Et ægteskaps historie'', 1922 *''Taushet som dræper'', 1929 *''Liv Bille'', 1933 *''Fra Midnatsolens land'' *''Glemte melodier: juleskisser''

References

1868 births 1950 deaths Writers from Bærum 19th-century Norwegian novelists 20th-century Norwegian novelists {{Norway-writer-stub