The Norwegian Chesterton: A Brief Introduction to Sigrid Undset ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Norwegian Chesterton: A Brief Introduction to Sigrid Undset ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Though she was a far greater novelist than G.K. Chesterton, Sigrid Undset’s apologetic essays were certainly Chestertonian. And she loved his work. The story is that she once slammed “The Everlasting Man” on an editor’s desk, declaiming: “This is the best book ever written. It has to be translated into Norwegian!” 2024 was a year of anniversaries for 1928 Nobel Prize winner and Catholic convert, Sigrid Undset. The Feast of All Saints marked the …

The Norwegian Chesterton: A Brief Introduction to Sigrid Undset - Conservative Angle

Though she was a far greater novelist than G.K. Chesterton, Sigrid Undset’s apologetic essays were certainly Chestertonian. And she loved his work. The story is that she once slammed “The Everlasting Man” on an editor’s desk, declaiming: “This is the best book ever written. It has to be translated into Norwegian!” 2024 was a year of anniversaries for 1928 Nobel Prize winner and Catholic convert, Sigrid Undset. The Feast of All Saints marked the …