Selma Lagerlof
Swedish author and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her fiction drew on Swedish folklore and legend, blending romantic idealism with acute social observation in works like The Saga of Gosta Berlings.
Works
- The Saga of Gosta BerlingsNovel of a defrocked clergyman's adventures and romances in rural Swedish aristocratic society
- The Wonderful Adventures of NilsFantastical novel of a boy's magical journey across Sweden transformed into wild goose
- JerusalemNovel of Swedish and Palestinian settlers seeking religious community in Holy Land
- Liljecrona's HomeNovel exploring the life and struggles of a woman managing a Swedish family estate
- The Miracles of AntichristNovel depicting attempts to create a socialist commune through biblical interpretation