Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf, a Swedish writer, was born Nov. 20 1858 at Mårbacke in Värmland (Vermland). She grew up among country surroundings in a province in which tradition and folk-lore survived to an extent unknown elsewhere in the land. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lagerlöf worked as a country schoolteacher in Landskrona for nearly 10 years while honing her story-telling skills, with particular focus on the legends she had learned as a child. By 1895, she gave up her teaching to devote herself to her writing. 'Christ Legends' was published in 1908, translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. In 1909 Selma Lagerlöf won the Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". In 1914 she also became a member of the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in literature. At the start of World War II, she sent her Nobel Prize medal and gold medal from the Swedish Academy to the government of Finland to help raise money to fight the Soviet Union. The Finnish government was so touched that it raised the necessary money by other means and returned her medal to her. In 1928, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald's Faculty of Arts. Two hotels are named after her in Östra Ämtervik in Sunne, and her home, Mårbacka, is preserved as a museum. Since 1992, her portrait has been featured on the Swedish 20 krona banknote.

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• Literature & FictionReligious & Inspirational FictionChristianShort Stories

• Publication Date: August 29, 2011
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• Print Length: 112 Pages
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