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Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940)

Autor(a) de The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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About the Author

Selma Lagerlöf, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1909, was the first woman to be elected a member of the Swedish Academy. Her first novel, The Story of Gosta Berling (1891), assured her position as Sweden's greatest storyteller. She retold the folk tales of her native province, Varmland, in an mostrar mais original and poetic prose. As a woman writer, Lagerlöf gained a reputation as a naive purveyor of native traditions, but she herself compared writing a novel to solving a mathematical problem. Her artistry entails making her stories seem simple, but they are told with great attention to symbolism, psychology, and narrative technique. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906) is a delightful fantasy written to teach children about Swedish geography, but it has found an international audience. Her third novel and masterpiece, Jerusalem (1901--02), the story of farmers from Dalarna who follow their faith to the Holy City, was widely praised for its insights into the lives of peasants searching for a spiritual ideal. During World War II, Lagerlöf helped many German artists and intellectuals escape the Nazis, even donating her gold Nobel Prize medal to a benefit fund to help Finland. She died of a stroke on March 16, 1940. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Selma Lagerlöf

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906) — Autor — 1,321 exemplares
The Saga of Gösta Berling (1891) 1,204 exemplares
Jerusalem (1901) 367 exemplares
The Emperor of Portugallia (1914) 337 exemplares
The Treasure (1903) 165 exemplares
Christ Legends (1964) 163 exemplares
From a Swedish Homestead (1889) 135 exemplares
The Löwensköld Ring (1925) 133 exemplares
Memories of Marbacka (1922) 116 exemplares
The Phantom Carriage (1912) 93 exemplares
Invisible Links (1894) 82 exemplares
The Holy Night (1993) 77 exemplares
Anna Svärd (1928) 77 exemplares
The Further Adventures of Nils (1911) 75 exemplares
The Miracles Of Antichrist (1989) 70 exemplares
The Legend of the Christmas Rose (1762) 66 exemplares
Jerusalem II (1918) 66 exemplares
Jerusalem I (1927) 66 exemplares
Troll och människor (1915) 65 exemplares
Charlotte Löwensköld (1925) 63 exemplares
Liljecronas hem (1911) 46 exemplares
The Outcast (1918) 39 exemplares
Körkarlen : Bannlyst (1978) 38 exemplares
The Changeling (1986) 24 exemplares
Die schönsten Legenden (1978) 15 exemplares
Die schönsten Sagen und Märchen (1976) 11 exemplares
Nils Holgersson (1991) 10 exemplares
Gösta Berlings saga. B.2 (1965) 9 exemplares
What the Shepherd Saw (2014) 9 exemplares
Gösta Berlings Saga 1 (2014) 8 exemplares
Frid på jorden (2013) 8 exemplares
Fire julefortellinger (2017) 7 exemplares
Spökhanden (2012) 7 exemplares
Mårbackablomster 7 exemplares
Sakari Topelius 7 exemplares
L'Anneau du pêcheur (1987) 7 exemplares
Els Ingmarsson (1918) 6 exemplares
Sprookjes en sagen (1987) 6 exemplares
Tjänsteanden (2013) 6 exemplares
Œuvres romanesques (2014) 6 exemplares
The silver mine (2017) 5 exemplares
Novelas escogidas 5 exemplares
Charlotte Löwensköld (2022) 5 exemplares
Höst : berättelser och tal (1976) 5 exemplares
Dödskallen (2013) 5 exemplares
Legender, berättade (2019) 5 exemplares
Joululahja ja muita kertomuksia (1986) 4 exemplares
El carreter (2017) 4 exemplares
El anillo del general 4 exemplares
En saga om en saga 4 exemplares
O Anel dos Löwenskölds (2017) 4 exemplares
Letters from Jerusalem (2000) 4 exemplares
Vägen mellan himmel och jord (2013) 4 exemplares
Gesammelte Werke. 4 Bände (1998) 4 exemplares
Weihnachtsgeschichten (2018) 4 exemplares
Geschichten und Sagen 4 exemplares
Dunungen (2012) 3 exemplares
Zachris Topelius (1920) 3 exemplares
Cudowna podróż / T. 1 (1986) 3 exemplares
Nils Nolgersson (1991) 3 exemplares
Legenden om julrosorna (2021) 3 exemplares
Il violino del pazzo (2023) 3 exemplares
Sagor och berättelser (1984) 3 exemplares
Cudowna podróż; t.2 3 exemplares
Contos Lendários (2011) 3 exemplares
Skrifter 3 exemplares
Trollmusik 3 exemplares
Les reines de Kungahälla (2013) 3 exemplares
Från skilda tider II (2019) 3 exemplares
Cuentos y Leyendas 2 exemplares
Saga apie Gestą Berlingą (1989) 2 exemplares
El Niño Duende 2 exemplares
Mårbackasviten (2019) 2 exemplares
Liebesgeschichten (2008) 2 exemplares
Erzählungen 2 exemplares
Bandito (2022) 2 exemplares
A Christmas Guest 2 exemplares
Drottningar i kungahälla (2014) 2 exemplares
Generosidad de corazón (1942) 2 exemplares
Die Lichtflamme 2 exemplares
Devochka iz Morbakki (2013) 2 exemplares
Gösta Berlingin taru. 1 (1965) 2 exemplares
La bataille avec les cygnes (1984) 2 exemplares
Selma Lagerlöf forteller (1995) 2 exemplares
Nils Holgersson (1997) 2 exemplares
Kristuslegender (1999) 2 exemplares
Dockteaterspel 2 exemplares
Robin Redbreast (1996) 2 exemplares
Bortbytingen: Noveller (2012) 2 exemplares
Valda berättelser 2 exemplares
Miraklet i Diamante 2 exemplares
Mårbacka-trilogien (2013) 2 exemplares
Karoliinin sormus 2 exemplares
Legenden om juleroserne (2003) 2 exemplares
Skrifter (IV) 1 exemplar
Tarinoita 1 exemplar
Selma Lagerlöf (2009) 1 exemplar
KOOTUT TEOKSET 4 1 exemplar
Die schönsten Erzählungen (1999) 1 exemplar
Gesammelte Erzählungen (2012) 1 exemplar
MÅRBACKA (1922) 1 exemplar
Wunderbare Reife 1 exemplar
Jeruzalem (2013) 1 exemplar
Petter Nord 1 exemplar
Fortellinger 1 exemplar
En gammel kirke 1 exemplar
Julberättelser 1 exemplar
Sagen und Legenden (2015) 1 exemplar
Oud en Nieuw 1 exemplar
Podzim 1 exemplar
Jerusalem II 1 exemplar
Jerusalem I 1 exemplar
Sigrid la Superbe 1 exemplar
Maldición 1 exemplar
Nils Holgersson (2016) 1 exemplar
Legendy o Kristovi 1 exemplar
Le Voyage de Nils Holgersson (1976) 1 exemplar
Nils Holgerson 1 exemplar
Skrifter 1-12 1 exemplar
The Treasure 1 exemplar
Cudowna podróż. T. 1-2 (1990) 1 exemplar
Sel pühal ööl (2004) 1 exemplar
Kungahällan kuningattaria (2019) 1 exemplar
Legender i urval 1 exemplar
Krisztus-legendák 1 exemplar
A Manor House Tale 1 exemplar
Leyendas de Cristo 1 exemplar
Kootut teokset 1 exemplar
Blago (2015) 1 exemplar
Short Fiction 1 exemplar
Påskkärringen (2020) 1 exemplar
Skrifter : Bind 10 1 exemplar
Skrifter (11 bind) 1 exemplar
Skrifter (III) 1 exemplar
EN JULEGJEST (2017) 1 exemplar
Elsa 1 exemplar
Legenden om fru Lucia (2000) 1 exemplar
Julens bästa berättelser (2011) 1 exemplar
Mickey Mouse Annual (1949) (1949) 1 exemplar
Karr und Graufell (1955) 1 exemplar
Bortbytingen 1 exemplar
Vonken 1 exemplar
Den hellige natten (2022) 1 exemplar
LEGENDEN UND ERZAHLUNGEN (1923) 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
Zdenac mudraca 1 exemplar
Lagerlof Selma 1 exemplar
LENDARIOS 1 exemplar
Från skilda tider 1 exemplar
Nordic Tales (2004) 1 exemplar
Bijeg u Egipat 1 exemplar
Algunas Leyendas de Cristo (1996) 1 exemplar
Helga 1 exemplar
Skiftingen (1975) 1 exemplar
Da vida e da morte 1 exemplar
Unsichtbare Bande 1 exemplar
The Rattrap 1 exemplar
Helga. Marianna 1 exemplar
Christus-Legenden 1 exemplar
Die Mausefalle (2010) 1 exemplar
Julelegender 1 exemplar
Suotorpan tyttö 1 exemplar
Novelas escogidas 1 exemplar
Astrid 1 exemplar
Cudowna podróż. T. 2 (2022) 1 exemplar
Cudowna podróż. T. 1 (2022) 1 exemplar
Uomini e troll 1 exemplar

Associated Works

A World of Great Stories (1947) 260 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 03: Myths and Legends (1938) — Contribuidor — 236 exemplares
Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Contribuidor — 181 exemplares
Stories to Remember, Volume I (1956) — Contribuidor — 147 exemplares
Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old (2002) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
The Fantastic Imagination II (1978) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (1959) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Easter Stories: Classic Tales for the Holy Season (1656) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
World's Great Adventure Stories (1929) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (1978) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The Seas of God: Great Stories of the Human Spirit (1944) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Animals' Christmas (1944) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël (2021) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Echo: Scandinavian Stories about Girls (2000) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Visions and Imaginations: Classic Fantasy Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Trees: A Celebration (1989) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Meesters der Zweedse vertelkunst — Autor, algumas edições10 exemplares
Dangerous Ladies (1992) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Los Premios Nobel de Literatura, v.1 — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Word Lives On: A Treasury of Spiritual Fiction (1951) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Karvatassujen jäljillä : Satuja eläimistä (1996) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Stories for girls — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Kleine Bettlektüre für treue Pommern (1985) — Autor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Lagerlöf, Selma
Nome legal
Lagerlöf, Selma Ottilia Lovisa
Outros nomes
Лагерлёф, Сельма
Data de nascimento
1858-11-20
Data de falecimento
1940-03-16
Localização do túmulo
Östra Ämterviks kyrka, Sunne, Zweden
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Zweden
Local de nascimento
Östra Ämtervik, Värmland, Zweden
Local de falecimento
Östra Ämtervik, Värmland, Zweden
Locais de residência
Mårbacka, Östra Ämtervik, Värmland, Zweden
Educação
Högre lärarinneseminariet, Stockholm, Zweden
Ocupações
Lerares
Schrijfster
Relações
Elkan, Sophie (partner)
Tegnér, Esaias (Haar opa, Daniel Lagerlöf was zijn neef)
Sachs, Nelly (vriendin)
Olander, Valborg (vriend)
Organizações
Svenska Akademien(stol 7)
Samfundet De Nio
Prémios e menções honrosas
Premi Nobel de Literatura (1909)

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Selma Lagerlöf was born in Östra Emterwik in the province of Värmland, western Sweden, and raised at Mårbacka, the family's estate there. Her parents were Erik Gustav Lagerlöf and his wife Louise Wallroth. She had five siblings. An early illness left her lame in both legs for a while, but she recovered and later said she had a happy childhood. She began writing poetry at an early age. She was educated at home, and in 1881 went to Stockholm to train as a teacher. In 1885, she took a job at a girls' high school in Landskrona, where she wrote her first novel, Gösta Berlings Saga (1891). The book went unnoticed at the time but later became her most popular, and played a part in the Swedish Romantic revival of the 1890s. In 1895, she won a scholarship from the Swedish Academy and gave up teaching to devote herself to her writing. After a visit to Italy, she published Antikrists mirakler (The Miracles of the Antichrist, 1897). With her close friend Sophie Elkan, she took a trip to Egypt and Palestine in 1899 that inspired her book Jerusalem (two volumes, 1901–02), her first big hit, which established her as one of the leading Swedish novelists of her generation. Other works included the children's geography book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, 1906). In 1909, Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. World War I disturbed her deeply, and she wrote little until publishing her memoirs Mårbacka (1922), Ett barns memoarer (Memories of My Childhood, 1930), and Dagbok för Selma Lagerlöf (The Diary of Selma Lagerlöf 1932). She also produced a trilogy of historical novels set in Värmland: Löwensköldska ringen (The Ring of the Löwenskölds, 1925), Charlotte Löwensköld (1925), and Anna Svärd (1928). She was deeply attached to her childhood home Mårbacka, which was sold after her father’s death, and used her Nobel Prize money to buy it back. She was also a friend of the German-Jewish writer Nelly Sachs, and helped her escape the Nazis to Sweden.

Membros

Discussions

Group Read, May 2014: Gosta Berlings Saga em 1001 Books to read before you die (Maio 2014)

Críticas

Esperanto Internacie : 1939, vol. 3, nr 1, p. 14
 
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Erfgoedbib | 5 outras críticas | Mar 23, 2024 |
Reason read: January 2024 botm Reading 1001. Author is winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, in fact she is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. This work was a collection of sagas, or folktales. I think sagas might be a common form of literature in the Scandinavian countries. Iceland is famous for their sagas. This one is Swedish. Gosta Berling is a defrock clergy. He got into drink and then he became a cavalier which sounds like a bunch of men who drink and carouse but in general mean no harm. The stories are interconnected and that is what makes it a novel but it really does have a plot. It may have symbols, motifs, etc, but no real plot, no rising action, etc. The land is a part of the story. The culture is interesting. I enjoyed listening to the reader on Librovox because he had that Scandinavian accent. Fund to hear the words but also funny when I heard him pronounce “fatigue” as fa-ta-gue. The whole book was read by the same reader. Something that doesn’t always happen with Librovox. It was a so so read for me. Took up way too much time.… (mais)
 
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Kristelh | 31 outras críticas | Jan 17, 2024 |
Dreadful. Author's name anagrams to "llama-free slog" and while I don't think there are any llamas in this book, I can't say for sure because I Did Not Finish.
½
 
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yarb | 31 outras críticas | Jan 4, 2024 |
Het oude boek (1906) van de reis die de Niels maakt met de wilde ganzen van Akka van Kebnekaisa (Lapland),
samen met Maarten de Ganzerik.
Niels is in een dwerg veranderd door een kabouter omdat hij een akelig joch was, die zijn ouders veel verdriet deed en alle dieren en kinderen slecht behandelde. Op de reis over Zweden leert hij oog te hebben voor de behoeften en noden van anderen en helpt hij ze waar hij kan, waardoor hij innige vriendschappen kan sluiten.
Het boek is geschreven als een soort aardrijkskundeles, het vertelt heel veel over het land en de verschillende streken, wat de mensen er zoal doen en ondertussen staan er heel veel verhalen en oude sagen.
Een heerlijk boek, ook mooi, hoewel natuurlijk wat oubollig en ouderwets geschreven.
… (mais)
 
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vuurziel | 27 outras críticas | Dec 24, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
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Also by
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Membros
6,682
Popularidade
#3,661
Avaliação
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Críticas
150
ISBN
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