Cora Sandel | |
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Native name | Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius |
Born | Oslo, Norway | 20 December 1880
Died | 3 April 1974 Uppsala, Sweden | (aged 93)
Occupation | novelist and painter |
Language | Norwegian |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Partner | Anders 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]