Selma Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 - 16 March 1940) Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. During her childhood, an illness left her lame in both the legs. Even though she recovered after two years, the illness had the effect of turning her into a quiet child, more mature than her age, someone who would prefer to spend time reading books, rather than playing with kids of her age. For rest of her life she would be obsessed with the idea of adventure and activity, the very elements that her short tryst with illness as a child had denied her. In the fairy tales and short stories that she would write later she would create a world redolent of Nordic legends and inhabited by hyperactive and naughty kids who would indulge in all kinds of adventures while travelling to far-flung places. She was born in Östra Emterwik, Värmland, Sweden, and grew up on Mårbacka, the family farm. She enjoyed a loving relationship with her father, who tutored her at home. From her grandmother, she used to hear fascinating fairy tales and legends, stories about the magnificent past of the great estates in the Värmland region, a world of cavaliers, sleighing parties, and superstitions. Till 1881, she stayed at her parental farm Mårbacka, moving to Stockholm in 1882 to take teacher’s training. The speech that she gave at the Nobel banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, on December 10, 1909, was focussed in a large measure on the relationship that she enjoyed with her father. mobilemantra.org/2013/07/selma-lagerlof-20-november-1858-16.html
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