Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Classics)
Sigrid Undset(1882-1949) was a Norwegian writer best known for her three- volume medieval epic,Kristin Lavransdatterand the four-volumeThe  Master of Hestviken. She won the Nobel Prize in 1928.Tiina Nunnally's translation of Peter Hoeg's bestsellerSmilla's Sense of  Snowwon the Lewis Galantiere Prize, given by the American Translators  Association. Her translation for the Penguin ClassicsKristin Lavransdatter I: The  Wreathwas nominated for the PEN Center USA West Translation Award.Sherrill Harbison is a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College and an Associate of the Five  Colleges. She is also the editor of the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics editions of  Undset'sGunnar's Daughterand Willa Cather's TheSong of the Lark.