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i12bent · 4 years

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Norwegian writer and women’s rights activist Camilla Collett (Jan. 22, 1813 - 1895), photographed on the occasion of her 80th birthday...

Collett came from a literary family - her brother was poet Henrik Wergeland and her father was a vicar and amateur painter. Camilla was engaged to a frenemy and rival of her brother Henrik, Johan Welhaven, but broke it off with him before marriage became a reality.

In her only novel - Amtmandens Døtre (The District Governor’s Daughters) - she describes the difficulties of marrying for love and of your own choosing. Later her writing became more political and polemical, and she pleaded for women to be active in social life and more self-determinant.

#literature #norwegian writer #camilla collett #1890s #1850s #amtmandens døtre #psychological realism #tendensroman #the district governor's daughters #henrik wergeland #johan welhaven

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silentambassadors · 7 years

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Hvil i fred, Camilla Collett.

Stamp details: Stamps on top: Issued on: January 23, 1963 From: Oslo, Norway MC #485-486

Stamp on bottom: Issued on: September 9, 2013 From: Oslo, Norway MC #1823

#Jacobine Camilla Collett #camilla collett #camilla wergeland #norway #norge #writers #authors #feminists #stamps #philately #march 6

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faustandfurious · 3 years

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different anon (i think the first is a coward) what is a list of norwegian lit that you recommend?

Hi, different anon here. Genuinely interested in what Norwegian literary works you recommend

So glad you guys asked! Disclaimer that I have no idea which of these have been translated into English, and I'm only mentioning the works I've actually read and enjoyed. The bolded titles are good places to start if you're completely new to Norwegian literature

1700s

Ludvig Holberg: Erasmus Montanus - comedy about the student Rasmus Berg who goes to the city to study philosophy, latinises his name, returns home and clashes with the flat-earthers of his hometown. It's really funny, trust me

Ludvig Holberg: Jeppe paa Bierget - comedy in the same style as Erasmus Montanus, about a peasant and drunkard who's pranked by the local Baron into thinking he's a nobleman

Ludvig Holberg: Niels Klims reise til den underjordiske verden - considered the first Nordic sci-fi novel, originally published in Latin so it could reach a larger audience

Some sources will claim Holberg as a Danish author because of Norway's political status at the time and because he wrote in Danish, but he was born and raised in Bergen and the language he wrote in is not that different from modern Norwegian. However, this highlights the lack of an independent Norwegian cultural identity pre-19th century.

1800s and early 1900s

Henrik Wergeland: Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias - think Dante and Milton, but Norwegian Romanticism. Wergeland is the Romantic poet in Norway; though there were others, like Johann Sebastian Welhaven who is mainly remembered for being Wergeland's rival and for having a romantic relationship with Wergeland's sister, Camilla Collett

Camilla Collett: Amtmandens Døtre - about the choice between marrying for love and marrying for emotional and financial stability. Read if you like any of the Brontë sisters

Henrik Ibsen: Well, basically everything by him, but my personal favourites are Brand and An Enemy of the People

Alexander Kielland: Garman & Worse - sharp criticism of everything wrong with society at the time. Read if you enjoyed Les Miserables and Victor Hugo in general

Knut Hamsun: Victoria - this is a very good place to start with Hamsun and with Norwegian lit in general, because the story is short and accessible even to the reader who knows very little about Norwegian culture

Knut Hamsun: Hunger - read this one if you like Dostoevsky

Knut Hamsun: The Growth of the Soil - honestly I'm not sure I'd recommend this unless you really really like Hamsun. It's a rejection of modernity and an idealisation of the hard-working farmer carving out a life for himself and his family, but in a way that does very little to romanticise the sometimes brutal reality of rural life. I enjoyed the silent, introspective writing style, but YMMV

Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter - historical fiction trilogy about a woman living in the 14th century and her struggles with love, life and religion. Undset has also written many other great novels, but Kristin Lavransdatter is her most famous one

Contemporary stuff

Jostein Gaarder: Sofie's World - honestly the best intro to Western philosophy you could wish for, but it's also a very good novel

Jostein Gaarder: The Orange Girl - note that the original title specifically refers to the fruit and not the colour. Just read it, it's beautiful

Ruben Eliassen: The Phenomena series. Middle grade, Tolkien-inspired fantasy about elves with ADHD. Unfortunately it never got an English translation as far as I know

Kjell Askildsen's short stories

Lars Saabye Christensen: Beatles and The Half-Brother - both about growing up in Oslo in the 1960s, the former being a more light-hearted coming-of-age novel and the latter being a bit darker in its themes

Other than that, there's a lot of Norwegian poetry I really love, but it's difficult to recommend since it's not available in translation and so much of the beauty would be lost in the translation process anyway

#anonymous elf #answered #book recommendations #long post

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an-american-in-norway · 5 years

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Biografien om Camilla Collett - Siri Senje

“I Christiania på midten av 1800-tallet hadde alle en mening om Camilla Wergeland Collett. Som ung prestedatter var hun kjent som balldronning og sangtalent. Som voksen skrev hun Norges aller første roman, Amtmannens Dtre. Siden fulgte en lang rekke bøker, og Camilla ble en frontfigur i kampen for kvinners rett til å gjøre egne valg. Samtidig hadde hun et dramatisk privatliv, først som søster av Henrik Wergeland, dypt forelsket i hans fiende Johan Sebastian Welhaven, og senere som fattig firebarnsmor da ektemannen Jonas Collett dde etter bare ti års ekteskap. Mange har sagt om Camilla at hun var langt forut for sin tid. Da hun døde i 1895, hadde kvinner fortsatt ikke fått stemmerett i Norge. I 1913, da den endelig kom, ville hun ha fylt hundre år. Hundre år etter det igjen blir begge begivenhetene feiret. Siri Senje forteller levende om livet hennes som ung of voksen, slik at det er litt å bli revet med i den spennende historien.”

Sider: 134

Tid til å lese: ~3.5 timer

Nivå: B1

Comments: I liked this book. It’s the third biography on a Norwegian figure I’ve read but both my husband and roommate went “oh! Camilla Collett!” when they saw this one and made no comment on the others. Definitely worth it to learn about her, and I liked the way the author focused on her private life to build a solid picture of how she came to be.

#norwegian books #b1 #camilla collett

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