Kaia Bruland Nilssen


Kaia Bruland Nilssen was a Norwegian novelist.
Beginning in 1895, she published several novellas and novels, and occasionally poems. She has been noted as writing non-pretentious trivial literature for a female audience. The book Aagot Vangen - et livsbillede from 1903 is a biographical novel about the Norwegian sculptress Aagot Vangen, who received her artistic education in Paris but died when still in her twenties. Kaia Bruland-Nilssen's most popular book was 1897's Sjøgutten. She also contributed to the :wikt:scandal sheet|scandal sheet Spidskuglen.
She resided near Bekkestua in Bærum. She died in 1950.

Selected works

First editions only: