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Selma Lagerlöf

05-05-2015 13:18

Who	Selma Lagerlöf, 1858 - 1940
Heroine	She convinced the Swedish crone to save her friend, the German-Jewish writer Nelly Sachs and her aged mother from Nazi Germany
Nobel prize of literature	Granted for her lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception
Love letters	to Sophie Elkan, her lover and life companion.
Wrote about	Love, myths and legends, in landscapes with bears, foxes and endless forests. She would've loved knowing about the Bronze Age rock carvings!