Selma Lagerlöf

Swedish writer

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 185816 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lagerlöf (1909)
Selma Lagerlöf, painted by Carl Larsson (1908)

Quotes edit

  • Women can do nothing that has permanence.
    • The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)
  • If you have learned anything at all from us, Tummetott, you no longer think that the humans should have the whole earth to themselves.

External links edit

 
Wikipedia
Wikipedia has an article about:
 
Commons
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: