The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) stands as one of Sweden's most esteemed writers, an innovator of literary style and the first female Nobel laureate in Literature (1909). Born into a wealthy family in Värmland, Sweden, Lagerlöf was deeply influenced by the folk tales and legends of her native province, which imbued her writing with a distinctive narrative charm and lyrical quality. Her education at the ...