“selma lagerlof”

One afternoon Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock alighted on the shore of a forest lake. Spring was backward -- as it always is in the mountain districts. Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land. The geese at once plunged into the water to bathe and hunt for food. In the morning N... More

Lagerlof was awarded the Nobel Prize for the 'lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception' in her writing... More

Translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard.... More

When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow I hardly know if I have had a greater since then. It was then that my grandmother died. Up to that time, she used to sit every day on the corner sofa in her room, and tell stories. I remember grandmother told story after story from morning till ni... More

Early twentieth century novel from the Swedish author and first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.... More

Selma Lagerlof won the Nobel Prize in 1909, and was the first woman to do so, and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was so popular that her books were translated into 34 languages. Her novels usually describe her homeland of Sweden, but in The Legend of the... More