Elisabeth Braadland Dored (

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Elisabeth Sophie Wiel Braadland; 22 March 1908 – 6 September 1972) was a Norwegian visual artist and author.

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Elisabeth Sophie Wiel Braadland was born at Idd (now

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) in

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, Norway. Her parents were Birger Braadland (1879–1960) and Ragna Abigael Vogt Stang (1881–1972). She studied art at the Académie Scandinave in

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under Henry de Waroquier (1881–1970), and trained at the Académie de l'Art Moderne with

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(1879-1949) during 1929. She attended the

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where she studied under Halfdan Strøm in 1931. In 1935, she married Latvian born cinematographer John Dored (1881–1954). She debuted as an author with ''For meg er jorden rund'' (1955) in which she tells about the life and career of her husband. She won the

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(''Bokhandlerprisen'') in 1964 for her historic romance novel ''Jeg elsket Tiberius''. The novel was translated into English by Naomi Walford. During 1963, the novel was published under the title, '' I Loved Tiberius'' in Great Britain by

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and in the United States by

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1908 births 1972 deaths People from Østfold Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni 20th-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian women novelists 20th-century Norwegian women writers Norwegian artists {{Norway-novelist-stub

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