Cora Sandel

Cora Sandel
Native name
Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius
Born(1880-12-20)20 December 1880
Oslo, Norway
Died3 April 1974(1974-04-03) (aged 93)
Uppsala, Sweden
Occupationnovelist and painter
LanguageNorwegian
NationalityNorwegian
PartnerAnders Jönsson (m. 1913–1927)

Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius (20 December 1880 – 3 April 1974), better known by her pen name Cora Sandel, was a Norwegian writer and painter who lived most of her adult life abroad. Her best-known works are the novels now known as the Alberta Trilogy.[1][2] In 1961, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Norwegian philosopher Harald Ofstad.[3]

  1. ^ Wærp, Henning Howlid (2023-03-08). Hagen, Erik Bjerck (ed.). "Cora Sandel". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  2. ^ "Alberta and Freedom". Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  3. ^ Nomination archive – Cora Sandel nobelprize.org