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Selma Lagerlöf

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Selma Lagerlöf , 1858-1940, Swedish novelist. Her native Värmland is the background for many of her excellent stories, which deal with peasant life. Novels include The Story of Gösta Berling (1891, tr. 1898), a romantic tale of a renegade priest, lyrical in style; Jerusalem (1901, tr. 1901-2); and a trilogy (1925-28) which was published in English as The Ring of the Lowenskolds (1931). Several of her works, often based on legends and sagas, served as the basis for early Swedish films. The short stories of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906, tr. 1907) are classics of children's literature. She received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first woman to be thus honored.

Bibliography: See biographies by H. A. Larsen (1936) and W. A. Berendsohn (1968); studies by V. Edström (1984) and B. Holm (1984).

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Lagerlöf, Selma (1858–1940) Swedish novelist. Her lyrical work Story of Gösta Berling (1891) became immensely popular. A visit to Palestine inspired her greatest novel, Jerusalem (1901). In 1909 she became the first Swedish writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.

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