The other Norwegian Catholic to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is our monastery’s much loved author, SIGRID UNDSET. Here is a book I highly recommend. The information here is taken from the publisher:
During World War II, she loudly opposed anti-Semitism and the Nazi regime, and in the final years of her life, the Norwegian state awarded her the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Olav—the first time this honor was given to a woman outside the royal family.
But something more than courage and literary brilliance set Sigrid apart. In 1924, she converted to Roman Catholicism, scandalizing Protestants and atheist intellectuals alike, and leaving her isolated. This spiritual turn-which already began during the writing of Kristin Lavransdatter—shaped the very heart of her work, as well as her own life as a mother.
In a world so pockmarked by suffering, disappointment, and cruelty, Jesus Christ alone gives meaning to the word "love". Among her other celebrated works are the novels The Master of Hestviken and Ida Elizabeth, and a powerful spiritual biography of the great saint, Catherine of Siena.
Fr. Aidan Nichols, acclaimed theologian and spiritual writer, unpacks the
figure of Sigrid Undset from a distinctively Christian point of view. Rich in
both biography and textual analysis—including of works never translated into
English—Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts renders a shrewd, colorful account
of a writer who allowed her art to be transfigured by the Cross, by the fire of
God’s mercy, and thus opened to an intricacy and beauty beyond all telling.