Kitty Lossius

Kitty Lossius 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. She graduated as a teacher from Levanger Normal School in 1914, and she took a four-month course at the State Gymnastics School in 1917.
She debuted with the novel Ranka Paus, and later she wrote the play Grobund and ten more novels and two books for young girls.
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 is based on actual events; her grandfather's love story with an elderly widow.

Family

Lossius's grandfather Caspar Kahrs Lossius was a farmer and the mayor of Aure Municipality, and her father Caspar Kahrs Lossius was a ship's captain and hotel owner. After her father's death, Lossius's mother Christine Magdalene 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.