![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For many years her constant companion was fellow writer Sophie Elkan, with whom she traveled to Italy and the Middle East. Lagerlöf never married and was almost certainly a lesbian (she never officially stated that she was, but most later researchers believe this to be the case). As her writer career progressed she would keep up a correspondance with some of her former female collegues for almost her entire life. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.Īs a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years before her first novel Gösta Berling's Saga was published. ![]() She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.īorn in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. ![]()
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