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Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940)
Lagerlöf, Selma. A Swedish writer; born at Mårbacka, Värmland, Nov. 20, 1858; died in 1940. Beginning as a schoolteacher, she achieved fame with the publication of ‘Gösta Berling’ (1894). This was followed by ‘The Miracles of Antichrist’; ‘Jerusalem’; ‘The Emperor of Portugalia’; ‘The Wonderful Adventures of Nils’ (1906), and many short stories. She is a member of the Swedish Academy and recipient of the Nobel prize for literature. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).