author
Laura Kieler
1849–1932
Best remembered today for the real-life story that helped inspire Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, this Norwegian-Danish novelist also built a writing career of her own, publishing fiction and taking part in the literary debates of her time.
3 Audiobooks
André Kautokeinolainen: Kertomus perimmästä Pohjolasta
by Laura Kieler
Karen Jürgens Egtvedistä : Kertomus Eteläjyllannista
by Laura Kieler
About the author
Born in Tromsø on January 9, 1849, and later living in both Norway and Denmark, Laura Kieler was a Norwegian-Danish writer whose work included novels and other prose. Reliable sources agree that she died on April 23, 1932, in Denmark.
She is most often mentioned in connection with Henrik Ibsen. As a young writer she came into contact with him, and events from her marriage later became part of the real-world background that inspired Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House. That link has kept her name alive in literary history, but it can also overshadow her own writing.
Kieler deserves to be remembered as more than a footnote to someone else’s masterpiece. Reference sources describe her as an author engaged with the social and moral questions of her era, including women’s issues, and as a writer whose life moved between Norwegian and Danish culture.