Selma Lagerlöf – the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in LiteratureRSS

 2023-10-03   742

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish writer and politician. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and become a member of the Swedish Academy…

Lagerlöf's books have been translated into 60 languages and continue to be published worldwide. A volcano crater on Venus is named after Selma Lagerlöf, streets in Hamburg and Jerusalem are named after her, notebooks and posters with her image are sold in Sweden.

The Foreign Literature Department invites you to view the presentation " Selma Lagerlöf – the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature".


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