Selma Lagerlöf : 1st woman who received Nobel Prize in literature
Swedens Selma Lagerlof has become the world's first-ever woman to receive a Novel Prize in literature. Selma Lagerlof was born in 1858 in Sweden's Stra Emterwik, Värmland region. She lived an extensive 82 years of her life during which she wrote several novels and books. Selma Lagerlof dieid in 1940. Her family raised her on the family estate, Mrbacka. She didn't leave the estate until 1881. This is when she enrolled in a teachers' college in Stockholm.
She started working as a teacher in Landskrona's secondary school for girls in 1885. Selma had been writing poetry since she was a young child. However, she never published any of it until 1890. In 1890 a Swedish weekly awarded her first place in a literary competition. Moreover, the newspaper also went on to feature excerpts from the b...