(November 20, 1858 – March 16,1940) was a Swedish author, known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for toddlers), & awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909 (the foremost woman ever honored) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings." More significant works of hers include ''Gösta Berling's Saga, Jerusalem, The Ring of the Löwensköldsks, and The Treasure''. Virtually all of her stories were placed within Värmland, though a hike across continental Europe inspired such works as her The Miracles of the Antichrist, set within Sicily. Jerusalem was adapted inside 1996 into an internationally acclaimed motion picture.

Withwithin 1914 Selma Lagerlöf herself became a member of a system that awards the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy. Ab initio of the 2nd Globe War, she sent her Nobel Prize medal to the government of Finland to help them raise money to fight a Soviet Union. A Finnish government was thus fey that it raised a necessary money by more means & returned her decoration to her.

She was the close friend to Sophie Elkan, and the preserved letters from either their correspondence has mass produced a bit of scholars indicate it was a homosexual relation.

She sleep in Sunne, where deuce hotels come known as fallowing her. Her page is okay, preserved as a museum.

Her portrait has been featured on the Swedish 20 krona bill since 1991.

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Gösta Berlings saga (1891) Osynliga länkar (1894) Antikrists mirakler (1897) En herrgårdssägen (1899) Jerusalem (1901-02) Herr Arnes penningar (1904) Kristuslegender (1904) Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (1906-07) Liljecronas hem (1911) Körkarlen (1912) Kejsarn av Portugallien (1914) Troll och människor (1915-21) Bannlyst (1918) Mårbacka (1922) Löwensköldska ringen (1925) Charlotte Löwensköld (1925) Anna Svärd (1928) Ett barns memoarer (1930) Dagbok för Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1932) Höst (1933) Från skilda tider (1943-45, posthumously)