Selma Lagerlöf , born in Marbacka in the Värmland, in Sweden the November 20th 1858 and deceased in 1940 was a Swedish writer.

It was the fourth child of lieutenant Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf and his wife Louise Wallroth. His/her parents belonged to old families of Värmland. Most of what she tells on this area of Sweden finds its origin in the legends and accounts which were told to him during its childhood by its family. Its future work will nourish folklore and legends värmalandais which watered its childhood.

She taught as teacher at the school of girls of Landskrona of 1885 with 1895. The family field Mårbacka is sold in 1887. The Saga de Gösta Berling is published in 1891. In this romantic epopee, it lets burst its imagination a naive and fantastic in style rate/rhythm and lyric.

Successes that it gains with this work, as with the Marvellous Voyage from the Nile Holgersson through Sweden in 1906-1907 will enable him to carry out its dream, to repurchase the family field in 1910. It is the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize of literature, in 1909.

It is the first woman with being elected with the Swedish Académie in 1914. In 1916, it publishes a pacifist novel: Exiled the . She dies the March 16th 1940.

Works

• Gösta Berlings saga , novel, 1891
• the legend of Gösta Berling , translated by Andre Bellessort, Paris, P. Lamon, 1905,310 p.
• Gösta Berling , translated by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Stockholm, E.C. Fritze, 1937,606 p.
• Osynliga länkar , news, 1894
• invisible Bonds , translated by Andre Bellessort, Paris, Perrin, 1910, XVI-347 p.
• invisible Bonds , translated by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 2003,340 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-4580-7)
• Antikrists mirakler , novel, 1897
• Miracles of the Antichrist , translated by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Paris, Stock, 1924, XI-280 p. “cosmopolitan Library; 5”
• Drottningar I Kungahälla , news, 1899
• Queens of Kungahälla , translated and presented by Governed Boyer, Saint-Nazaire, Mystery 17,1986,142 p. “Letters of North” (ISBN 2-903945-21-1)
• In herrgårdssägen , novel, 1899
• the Violin of insane the , translated by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 2001,151 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-3547-X)
• Jerusalem , novel in two parts (1901-1902)
• Jerusalem I Dalarna , 1901
• Jerusalem in Dalécarlie , translated by Andre Bellessort, Paris, P. Lamm, 1903,321 p.
• Jerusalem I det Heliga , 1902
• Jerusalem out of Holy Land , translated by Andre Bellessort, Paris, Nilsson, 1914,297 p.
• Herr Arnes penningar , news, 1904
• Money of Mr Arne , translated by Élisa Girod-Hoskier, Poissy, Lejay wire and Lemoro, 1910,102 p.
• Ecus of lord Arne; followed by Karin Sister and sister Sisla , translated by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Paris, Éditions I am useful, 1939,192 p.
• Kristuslegender , 1904
• Légendes of Christ , Paris, Perrin, 1938,259 p.
• the Nile Holgerssons will underbara resa genom Sverige , novel, T. 1,1906; T. 2,1907
• the Marvellous voyage from the Nile Holgersson through Sweden , translated by Thekla Hammar, Paris, Perrin, 1912, XVII-408 p.
• the Marvellous Voyage from the Nile Holgersson through Sweden , translated by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 1990,634 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-86869-635-X)
• In saga om in saga: och will andra sagor , 1908
• Liljecronas hem , 1911
• Körkarlen , novel, 1912
• the Carter of death; Ram Lent and Northern Petter , translated from Swedish by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Paris, Perrin, 1922,259 p. “Collection of the foreign authors”
• the Coachman , translated by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 1998,152 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-1854-0)
• front Kejsarn Portugallien , 1914
• the Emperor of Portugal, tale verlandais , translates by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Paris, Delamain and Boutelleau, 1943,253 p. “Scandinavian Collection”
• Troll och människor , T. 1,1915; T. 2,1921
• Le Monde of the Trolls , translated by Thekla Hammar, Paris, Perrin, 1924, XVI-291 p. “Collection of foreign authors”
• Bannlyst , novel, 1918
• Exiled the , translated by Ladislas Perl, Paris, Edgar Malfère, 1933,263 p.” Library of the Hedgehog”
• the outlaw , translated by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 1999,317 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-2488-5)
• Zachris Topelius (1920)
• Mårbacka , 1922
• Mårbacka : memories of childhood , translated from Swedish by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 1997,299 p.” “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-1468-5)
• the “Trilogy of Löwenskold”: 3 novels (1925-1928)
• Löwensköldska ringen , 1925
• the Ring of Lövensköld , translated by Marthe Metzger, Paris, Éditions I am useful, 1935,215 p.
• the cursed Ring , translated by Michel Praneuf, Arles, Actes Sud, 2006,127 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-6500-X)
• Charlotte Löwensköld , 1925
• Charlotte Löwensköld , translated by Thekla Hammar, Paris, Éditions I am useful, 1935,320 p.
• Anna Svärd , 1928
• Anna Svärd , translated by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Paris, Éditions I am useful, 1936,326 p.
• Ett barns memoarer , 1930
• Dagbok för Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf , 1932
• My newspaper of child , translated by Thekla Hammar and Marthe Metzger, Paris, Stock, 1939,223 p. “Scandinavian Collection”
• Höst: berättelser och tal , 1933
• Från skilda tider , T. 1,1943 and T. 2,1945
• Julklappsboken: och will andra berättelser , accounts, 1993
• the book of Christmas , translated from Swedish by Marc de Gouvenain and Lena Grumbach, Arles, Actes Sud, 1994,154 p. “Scandinavian Letters” (ISBN 2-7427-0304-7)
• the Ring of the fisherman: news , translated by Marthe Metzger and Thekla Hammar, Paris, Delamain and Boutelleau, 1940,255 p. “Scandinavian Collection”

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