Talk:Sigrid Undset

immaturely written
The biography section is immaturely written; it sounds like a high school paper. Note awkward use of the first person plural. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.84.26.159 (talk) 01:10, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. This is horrible. How do we put a flag on it?

Seconded. Not saying I can do much better, but somebody can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.211.59.123 (talk) 20:45, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Citations are needed in order to justify/reference several sweeping assessments of Unsdset's writing, motivations, and life. A good example of awkwardness of style/vocabulary -- to describe a publication as "fetching." I happened upon this article as part of initial research regarding this author, and even in my ignorance knew something must be done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.116.167.59 (talk) 07:18, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. Couldn't some scholar care enough about Undset's reputation to rewrite the entire biography? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:C208:E800:8065:E590:12DC:FA5A (talk) 05:56, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

WP:POINT violation
As per: http://www.helium.com/tm/124237

The changes were made by anon

signed: Travb (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

The biography is plagarized
Most of the biographical section is plagarized from an article by Gidske Anderson found at the following URL: http://www.reisenett.no/norway/facts/culture_science/sigrid_undset.html   Haddison (talk) 20:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It is still plagiarized, years later! I have begun cleaning it, and I've tagged the article as a copyvio.  --Hordaland (talk) 00:15, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The plagiarized text was added 29 September 2006 by an IP. --Hordaland (talk) 00:36, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have contacted "reisenett.no" and been told that we may use their text. That may not be sufficient for Wikipedia's rules, and I don't know if the text is a reliable source.  What I intend to do first is remove the personal tone and try to make the article appear encyclopedic.  Since the owner of the text doesn't mind us using it, I will remove the copyvio template.  --Hordaland (talk) 12:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Original Research/Very Poor Quality
This page is loaded with original research and commentary. The writing style also is in need of a serious overhaul, as well as the layout (ex: the divorce section mentions nothing about a divorce). I wouldn't be suprised if this page needs a complete overhaul. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dondoolee (talk • contribs) 10:19, 6 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I have attempted to improve some of the earlier sections, but I do not have the necessary knowledge to tackle the section on Kristin Lavransdatter. Myopic Bookworm (talk) 00:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

what does this mean?
" she had another child of her own" Usually when you say "of her own", you would be talking about setting up something for herself when previously she had used something belonging to somebody else. For example, if she and her husband lived in a house which he wholly owned, it would mean she set up a house that she bought with proceeds from her writing. You can't say that of a child unless she underwent parthenogenesis, a process not known in humans. I think the sentence is written backward; you should point out that her husband had children from his previous marriage and _then_ say that this was his first child with her. 108.45.122.74 (talk) 10:32, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Incomplete list of works
I am presently reading a book of hers titled "Return to the Future". It is an interesting book that she wrote during the war about her journey to the US during the war. It is not mentioned in this article.

It was published by Knopf in 1941

2601:9:3B80:53:D131:BC10:76E4:707D (talk) 04:15, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

"Honors" error.
In the "Honors" section of this article it is stated Sigrid Undset received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920; my records--The Universal Almanac, 1994--show she received it in 1928. (Fellow Norwegian, Knut P Hamsun, received it in 1920.)

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