Elisabeth Sophie Wiel Braadland was born at
Idd (now
Halden) in
Østfold, Norway. Her parents were Birger Braadland (1879–1960) and Ragna Abigael Vogt Stang (1881–1972). She studied art at the
Académie Scandinave in
Paris under
Henry de Waroquier (1881–1970), and trained at the
Académie de l'Art Moderne with
Othon Friesz (1879-1949) during 1929. She attended the
Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in
Oslo 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
Norwegian Booksellers' Prize (
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
Methuen Publishing and in the United States by
Pantheon Books. == See also ==