Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf was born on 20 November 1858 at Mårbacka, in Värmland, an estate her family lost. A schoolteacher at Landskrona from 1885 to 1895, she published her first novel in 1891, drawn from the history and legends of her province, and in 1907 bought back the family home with the money from her books. The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909, and the first elected to the Swedish Academy, in 1914, she helped the poet Nelly Sachs escape from Germany late in her life. She died at Mårbacka on 16 March 1940.

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• NovelThe Wonderful Adventures of NilsNils Holgerssons underbara resa genom SverigeSelma Lagerlöf · 1906Literature