Author · Sweden · 1858–1940
Selma Lagerlöf
Kindness and wonder with backbone; landscape and conscience in luminous prose.
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.
Kindness and wonder with backbone in 2026
Selma Lagerlof joins mercy and myth. Villages and journeys become lessons in courage without harshness and beauty without drift. Read her to rest the mind while waking the heart and to share stories that respect children and adults at once.
