Nobel laureate
Sigrid Undset — Nobel Prize in Literature 1928
“principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”
Prize motivation
“principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”
The Swedish Academy awarded Sigrid Undset the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages.
Other laureates of the 1920s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).