The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.
Direction
Schäfer lets Selma's own words do the heavy lifting
Writing
Quotes that'll make you furious she isn't taught in schools
Director
André Schäfer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lagerlöf was the first woman in the Swedish Academy—and they made her wait until 1914, five years after her Nobel, to join the boys.
Her novel 'Gösta Berling's Saga' was so beloved that Greta Garbo's 1924 film debut in the adaptation essentially created the Garbo persona overnight.
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