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Selma Lagerlöf

1858 - 1940

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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, US also , Swedish: [ˈsɛ̂lːma ˈlɑ̂ːɡɛˌɭøːv] ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Selma Lagerlöf is the 66th most popular writer (down from 35th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Writer.

Selma Lagerlöf is most famous for her novel, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. The book tells the story of a boy, Nils, who sails with his grandfather to the North Pole and back.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 66 out of 7,302. Before her are Mark Twain, Henrik Ibsen, Stendhal, Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, and Bertolt Brecht. After her are Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Frost.

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Among people born in 1858, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 4. Before her are Giacomo Puccini, Max Planck, and Émile Durkheim. After her are Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf Diesel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Omar Mukhtar. Among people deceased in 1940, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 4. Before her are Leon Trotsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and J. J. Thomson. After her are Paul Klee, Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, and Carl Bosch.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 7 out of 1,879. Before her are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Alfred Nobel (1833), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), and Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626). After her are Tycho Brahe (1546), Anders Celsius (1701), Ingmar Bergman (1918), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), and August Strindberg (1849).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 2. Before her are Astrid Lindgren (1907). After her are August Strindberg (1849), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Harry Martinson (1904), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Henning Mankell (1948), Stieg Larsson (1954), Jan Guillou (1944), and Ellen Key (1849).

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