title: Kaia Bruland Nilssen
text: # 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
  