Kaia Bruland Nilssen
# Kaia Bruland Nilssen

Kaia Bruland Nilssen (1868 – 18 January 1950) 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 sculptor 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 scandal sheet Spidskuglen.

Bruland Nilssen resided near Bekkestua in Bærum. She died in 1950.

## Selected works

First editions only:

* Violinspilleren, 1895
* Stedmoder og steddatter, 1896
* Sjøgutten, 1897
* Forstand og hjerte, 1898
* Tante Ellen: fortælling, 1899
* Aagot Vangen: et livsbillede, 1903
* Dagmar Norgaards veninde, 1905
* Skjærgaardsliv, 1908
* Familien Granli, 1910
* Gutten som visste at hjelpe sig, 1915
* Ungdomskjærlighet, 1915
* Familiens yngste, 1917
* Alfhild Haug, 1920
* Et ægteskaps historie, 1922
* Taushet som dræper, 1929
* Liv Bille, 1933
* Fra Midnatsolens land
* Glemte melodier: juleskisser
