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Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlof was born in Varmland, Sweden, and grew up in the house of her grandmother. After a serious illness, at the age of three, Selma lost use of her legs for several years. She wasn't able to walk or play, and found joy in listening to her grandmother's stories. When Selma was five, her grandmother died. Reading books helped Selma overcome the tragedy, and soon she became motivated to become a writer herself. In her childhood, Selma wrote some poems and a play.
At the age of eleven, Selma had a surgery on Stockholm, and became able to walk again. However, her family's problems with money made her depressed. Luckily, the writer Anna Frysell decided to support her, and helped Selma to take a loan to finance her further education.
After a year of preparatory school, Selma Lagerlof entered the Women's Higher Teacher Training College in Stockholm. She graduated three years later, in 1885. At school, Selma read many of the nineteenth century's important writers. She wondered if her childhood was fair and looked for some moral ideas in these books.
The same year that she graduated, her father died, and Selma moved to a new town to live with her mother and aunt and to begin teaching. She also began writing in her spare time.
By 1890, Selma published a few chapters of Gösta Berlings Saga in a journal. She won a prize for it, which let her leave her teaching position and focus on finishing the novel. The novel was published the next year. Most of the critics' reviews were negative, but some opinions from Denmark encouraged Selma to continue with her writing.
By 1895, Selma gave up her teaching completely to devote herself to her writing. She was deeply interested in the Middle Ages and Christianity. Her two-part novel Jerusalem brought more public praise. Her stories were received well both by religious and non-religious people.
In 1904, Selma travelled around Sweden, as she began work on an unusual textbook: a Swedish geography and history book for children, told as a legend of a naughty boy whose travels on the back of a goose help him become more responsible. Published as The Wonderful Voyage of Nils Holgersson, this text came to be used in many Swedish schools.
In 1909, Selma Lagerlof was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She continued to write and publish. Later, she was elected to the Swedish Academy — the first woman to get such an acknowledgement.
Apart from her writing, Selma is well-known for her social activity. Thus, she supported women who worked hard to get their rights. She also was totally against Nazi Germany. Selma helped people to evacuate from Germany and even donated her awards to support her home country.
Selma Lagerlof died on March 16, 1940, some days after suffering a serious illness. Her letters and notes were published only fifty years after her death.
13. As a little child, Selma got a serious injury.
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14. Selma studied in a college for future writers.
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15. Selma won money for her first published stories.
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16. Selma wrote some stories about mythical creatures.
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17. Selma's story about the adventures of Nils and his goose was originally intended for children.
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18. Selma was awarded a Nobel Prize for her book about Nils.
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19. Selma didn't help her country during hard times.
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