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Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf 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.
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culture · Swedish author (1858–1940) · novelist · children's writer · biographer · teacher · poet · writer · prose writer · translator · autobiographer · folkeskole teacher · also Selma Lagerlöf, Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf, Lagerlöf
Born 20 November 1858 · Died 16 March 1940 · Q44519
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2006· 1 entry
As En riktig författarhustru (A Proper Writer's Wife)
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1996· 1 entry
Into the internationally acclaimed film of the same name
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1993· 1 entry
Titled Du lär mig att bli fri (You Teach Me to Be Free)
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1991· 1 entry
Became the first woman to be depicted on a Swedish banknote, when the first 20-kronor note was released
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1983· 1 entry
The Sunne Municipality in Värmland County founded the Selma Lagerlöf Prize, awarded to an author writing in the spirit of Lagerlöf
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1940· 2 entries
Died 1940-03-16.
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Lagerlöf intervened with the Swedish royal family to secure the release of Sachs and Sachs' aged mother from Nazi Germany, on the last flight from Germany to Sweden, and their lifelong asylum in Stockholm
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1931· 1 entry
As The Ring of the Löwenskölds, containing the Martin and Howard translations, LCCN 31-985
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class (1929).
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1928· 1 entry
Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald's Faculty of Arts
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1919· 1 entry
Lagerlöf sold all the movie rights to all of her as-yet unpublished works to Swedish Cinema Theatre (Swedish: Svenska Biografteatern), so over the years, many movie versions of her works were made
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1914· 2 entries
Was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy
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Career landmark: seat 7 of the Swedish Academy (1914–1940).
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1909· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1909).
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Awarded Litteris et Artibus (1909).
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1907· 1 entry
Received the honorary degree of doctor of letters (filosofie hedersdoktor) from Uppsala University
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1904· 1 entry
The academy had awarded her its great gold medal, and in 1914, she also became a member of the academy
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1902· 1 entry
Lagerlöf was asked by the National Teachers' Association to write a geography book for children
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1900· 1 entry
To the American Colony in Jerusalem became the inspiration for Lagerlöf's book by that name
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1897· 1 entry
And met Valborg Olander, who became her literary assistant and friend, but Elkan's jealousy of Olander was a complication in the relationship
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1894· 1 entry
Met the Swedish writer Sophie Elkan, who became her friend and companion
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1885· 1 entry
Studied at Högre lärarinneseminariet (1882–1885).
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1875· 1 entry
Lagerlöf lived in the Karlskoga Church Rectory alongside Erik Tullius Hammargren and his wife, Ottiliana Lagerlöf, who was her aunt, during which time she was one of Hammargren's confirmation students
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-11-20.
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