She had put aside the Middle Ages, and had instead produced a realistic description of a woman with a middle-class background in contemporary Kristiania. All the same, two years later she had completed another manuscript much less voluminous this time, only eighty pages long. It was turned down by the local publishing house however. The manuscript, a historical novel set in medieval Denmark, was ready by the time she was twenty-two. She was sixteen years old when she made her first attempt at writing a novel set in the Nordic Middle Ages. While employed at office work, Sigrid Undset wrote and studied. The family's economic situation meant that Undset had to give up hope of a university education and after a one-year secretarial course she obtained work as a secretary with an engineering company in Kristiania, a post she was to hold for the next ten years. When she was eleven years old, her father, the Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Martin Undset, died at the age of forty after a long illness. The family moved to Norway when she was two years old however, and Undset grew up in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. Unset was born in the small town of Kalundborg, Denmark, at the childhood home of her mother, Charlotte Undset (née Anna Maria Charlotte Gyth). She was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Sigrid Undset was born on 20 th May 1882.
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