Nan Helene Bentzen Skille (born 12 February 1945) founder of The Sigrid Undset Society (1997) and author of the first biography in English of the

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Laureate (1928) Sigrid Undset (1882–1949). Skille has a Masters in English Literature. She has been active as a promoter of the Norwegian author and Nobel Prize Laureate

Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset () (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, ...

for many years, both through The Sigrid Undset Society, which she led for five years from its founding in 1997, as editor for the periodical ''Gymnadnia'' (1997–2003) and as member of the council for the

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(since 1995). As a member of the Norwegian Festival of Literature council she became involved in the controversy over Holocaust denier David Irving, who was invited to speak at the 2009 festival. Nan Bentzen Skille publicly opposed the invitation after it was sent, but recommended that the Irving presentation be used to discuss critical issues it represented. She pointed out that Sigrid Undset had been critical of historians who locked into a view without thoughtfully considering opposing views and addressing them. Shortly after the controversy began, the invitation was withdrawn. Skille presented Undset in the educational film series titled "Nordic Giants", and was project manager for the recording of Undset’s play for miniature theater ''Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne'' (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) in 2001. She also coproduced the film ''Ei blott til lyst'' (Not Just for Fun) in 2006; the latter is an account of the miniature theatre which a group of Lillehammer artists created in the 1920s. In 2000 Skille led the initiative to place a plaque on the building in Via Frattina 138 in

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where Undset lived during two periods of her life. For five years Skille was engaged by Maihaugen Museum to assist with the restoration work at Undset's home, ''Bjerkebæk'', adressa.no Undset’s home in

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and to document the history of the site. For this she was awarded the

Anders Sandvig Anders Sandvig (11 May 1862 – 11 February 1950) was a Norwegian dentist most noted for having founded Maihaugen, an innovative regional ethnological and architectural museum in Lillehammer, documenting the vernacular architecture of Gudbra ...

Museum Stipend in 2000. Skille served for several years a columnist in the Norwegian broadcasting at Oppland, specializing in literature.

Bibliography

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''Fragmentation and Integration. A Critical Study of Doris Lessing'', ''The Golden Notebook''- University of Bergen
* 1996 ''Dattera til Brødrene Brose'' - children's book, Solum forlag * 2003 ''Innenfor gjerdet. Hos Sigrid Undset på Bjerkebæk'' - biography, Aschehoug ** 2009 ''Inside the Gate. Sigrid Undset's Life at Bjerkebæk'' - biography (translated by

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), Aschehoug * 2004 ''Maxim Gorkij eller Sigrid Undset?'' - NRK P2-akademiet, Transit forlag.
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''I Sigrid Undsets Ånd''
''Gymnadenia'', 2006 * 200
''Tordis Ørjasæter. En formidler i særklasse'' - minibiography
Prosa nr.6 2007 * 2008 ''Hvem er Doris Lessing?'' - Bokvennen 04/2008 authorsden.com ''The Small Personal Voice''
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''Kulturlivets deltagere og tilskuere''
''Prosa'', nr 3, 2009. * 2018 Inside the Gate. Sigrid Undset's Life at Bjerkebæk - biography (translated by

), University of Minnesota Press,

External links

Aschehoug
The Sigrid Undset SocietyProsaAftenpostenGorkij or Undset
* imes Literary Supplement 24. august 2018. " Look to Norway " 3]

*Dixikon.se ''Med Sigrid Undset på barrikadene

References

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