Kitty Lossius

Kitty Lossius (April 19, 1892 – November 26, 1981) was a Norwegian teacher and novelist. She had a publishing career that lasted nearly fifty years.

Life and work Lossius grew up in Kristiansund, where she graduated from high school in 1908. and she took a four-month course at the State Gymnastics School in 1917.

Her books are described as "stamped with the character of Kristiansund." Her debut novel is about a priest's wife that is an author and experiences her opinions colliding with the role of a priest's wife. The play Grobund is about contrasts between the bourgeoisie and the working class. Her books are referred to both as entertaining literature and as psychologically realistic novels from a bourgeois environment. The novel Enken og jomfruen (The Widow and the Maiden, 1954) is based on actual events; her grandfather's love story with an elderly widow.

Family Lossius's grandfather Caspar Kahrs Lossius (1799–1868) was a farmer and the mayor of Aure Municipality, and her father Caspar Kahrs Lossius (1844–1906) was a ship's captain and hotel owner. took over running the hotel, and Lossius worked for a time in a bookstore. She worked as a teacher in Kristiansund from 1915 to 1932, when she quit due to illness. In 1934 she was living in Oslo. She was married to the actor Robert Sperati.