# Anna Munch > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Munch > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Munch.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Munch > Source revision: 1204584918 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Norwegian novelist and dramatist (1856–1932) Anna Munch Portrait of Anna Dahl by her sister Cecilie (1877) Born Anna Dahl 4 August 1856 Christiania, Norway Died 29 November 1932(1932-11-29) (aged 76) Oslo, Norway Occupation Novelist and dramatist Alma mater Nissens Pigeskole Spouse Peter Anker Ragnvald Munch (m. 1883) Sigurd Mathiesen (m. 1910) Children 1 Relatives Cecilie Dahl (sister) **Anna Munch** née **Dahl** (4 August 1856 – 29 November 1932) was a Norwegian [novelist](/source/Novelist) and [dramatist](/source/Dramatist) whose works address conflicts between the sexes, frequently based on her own experience of marriage and divorce. After a difficult relationship with her first husband Peter Munch, she met the much younger writer Sigurd Mathiesen whom she later married. Her early novel *Kvinder. Et Stykke Udviklingshistorie. Kristiania-fortælling* (Women. A Piece on Development History. Christiania Tale, 1892) is about women artists. Her principal work, the novel *Glæde* (Joy, 1904), presents a sensitive description of the utopian world of childhood.[1][2][3] ## Early life and education Born on 4 August 1856 in the [Vestre Aker](/source/Vestre_Aker) (now a district of Oslo), Munch was the daughter of the physician Ludvig Vilhelm Dahl (1826–90) and his wife Anna Cathrine Lyders née Bonnevie (1835–93). She was the first of the family's 11 children, who included the artists [Cecilie Dahl](/source/Cecilie_Dahl_(born_1858)) (1858–1943), Nils Alstrup Dahl (1876–1940), and Ingerid Dahl (1861–1944).[3][4] She was raised in Christiania and [Trondheim](/source/Trondheim) and experienced a difficult childhood subject to her father's view that women were less skilled than men.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Munch completed her education at [Nissens Pigeskole](/source/Hartvig_Nissen_School).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Career After leaving her first husband in the 1890s, Munch devoted herself to writing.[3] In her first novel, *To mennesker* (*Two People*, 1898), Munch describes her passionate love for the writer [Knut Hamsun](/source/Knut_Hamsun).[2] Her second, *Kvinder* (1989), covers the contrasts for women between marriage and free love and presents the pleasures of the Bohemian way of life. Her later writing evokes contradictions between erotic love and platonic relationships which provide for lasting companionship. The theme is also central to her play *Psyche* (1893).[3][5] Her most successful work, *Glæde* (1910), is a semi-autobiographical novel describing the experiences of Ester's now lost utopian childhood as she suffers the ordeals of later life.[5] ## Personal life In 1883, Munch married Peter Anker Ragnvald Munch, an officer and teacher, with whom she had a daughter Signe.[6] Due to his poor treatment of her, including refusing to provide her with paper on which she could write, she referred to him as a tyrant.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] She dissolved the marriage in the 1890s.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] In 1910, she married the writer Sigurd Mathiesen (1871–1958).[3] After coping with difficult tines in [Stavern](/source/Stavern), a small town in Norway, the couple moved to Denmark.Though the couple initially enjoyed a happy relationship, they slowly lost interest in each other.[3] Munch died in Oslo on 29 November 1932.[3] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Anna Munch"](https://nordicwomensliterature.net/writers/munch-anna/). Nordic Women's Literature. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230703133814/https://nordicwomensliterature.net/writers/munch-anna/) from the original on 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ebk_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ebk_2-1) Bjerck Hagen, Erik. ["Anna Munch"](https://snl.no/Anna_Munch) (in Norwegian). Store Norske Leksikon. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230327094635/https://snl.no/Anna_Munch) from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-nbl_3-6) Aasen, Elisabeth. ["Anna Munch"](https://nbl.snl.no/Anna_Munch) (in Norwegian). Norsk Biografisk Leksikon. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180710164910/https://nbl.snl.no/Anna_Munch) from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Anna Dahl Munch, f. Dahl"](https://histreg.no/index.php/person/pf01052039012335) (in Norwegian). Historisk befolkningsregister. Retrieved 3 July 2023. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-abr_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-abr_5-1) Rønning, Anne Brigitte (16 December 2011). ["The Bohemian as Woman"](https://nordicwomensliterature.net/2011/12/16/the-bohemian-as-woman/). Nordic Women's Literature. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230704085754/https://nordicwomensliterature.net/2011/12/16/the-bohemian-as-woman/) from the original on 4 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Peter Anker Ragnvald Munch"](https://histreg.no/index.php/person/pd00000005663275) (in Norwegian). Historisk befolkningsregister. Retrieved 3 July 2023. 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