Selma Lagerfeld, also translated as Selma Lagrove. Woman writer, Swedish. 1909 because "because of the noble idealism unique to her works. Rich imagination, concise and elegant style "won Nobel Prize in Literature, who is the first writer in Sweden to win this honor and the first woman in the world to win this literary prize.

La Grove is unmarried for life, but countless children all over the world love her Niels Riding a Goose. At the age of eighty-two, she died of a cerebral hemorrhage at her beloved Mabaka Manor.

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1906 at the request of a primary school principal in Sweden, Lagrov, who is nearly 50 years old, promised to write a book suitable for children. She endured the great pain caused by leg disease, and made field trips all over the country.

On the basis of carefully studying the living habits, customs and people's feelings of birds and beasts in various places, the world-famous fairy tale Niels Riding a Goose was finally completed. La Grove also won the same honor as Andersen.

After its publication, this fairy tale was designated as a required reading for all Swedish students, and it was translated into more than 50 languages and spread all over the world. Due to the success and wide spread of this work, many readers who love this work even came from Denmark, Norway and Germany to visit the author Lagrov. In Sweden, the most important children's literature prize is named after Niels.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Selma Lagoff