Selma Lagerlöf

Lagerlöf (1909)

Selma Lagerlöf, painted by Carl Larsson (1908)

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Quotes

• Women can do nothing that has permanence.
  • The Miracles of Anti-Christ (1899)

• If you have learned anything at all from us, Tummetott, you no longer think that the humans should have the whole earth to themselves.
  • The Further Adventures of Nils (1907)
  • Said by Akka, leader of the wild geese to Nils