1943, and later also in Norway). At the end of the war, Lindbæk returned to Norway, suffering from alcohol problems she had developed during her wartime work. She involved herself in the reconstruction work in Norway's northernmost county Finnmark, which had suffered almost complete destruction in the closing months of the war. She worked as a journalist for the United Nations from 1945 to 1949. Her UN experiences also resulted in the book , which was published in 1949. In the 1950s, Lindbæk worked as a reporter in Germany, both in East and West Germany. She died in Kiel, Germany in 1961, committing suicide by drowning herself in the sea. Lise Lindbæk was buried in Roskilde, Denmark. Selected works (1935, with Max Hodann) (1938) (first edition New York City 1943; anthology, editor) (1946) (1958) References 1905 births 1961 suicides Norwegian war correspondents Norwegian expatriates in Italy Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian expatriates in Germany Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian people of the Spanish Civil War Norwegian women in World War II Suicides by drowning in Germany Norwegian women non-fiction writers Women in the Spanish Civil War Women war correspondents 20th-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian writers War correspondents of the Spanish Civil War 20th-century Norwegian journalists 1961 deaths