Selma La Gerf (1858- 1940), a Swedish woman writer, 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature Prize winner. She is the first Swedish writer to win this honor and the first woman in the world to win this literary prize. Her portrait is printed on a Swedish 20 kronor banknote, and on the back of the banknote is a must-read book for Swedish children, Riding a Goose. Selma lagerlf was born in a hereditary aristocratic landlord family in Wemland province in western Sweden. She graduated from Lowell Women's Teachers College in Stockholm on 1885, and was hired to teach at Ronas Girls' Middle School in Lenzke for ten years, where she began her first literary work. 189 1 year, her first literary work, The Story of Gogstad Behring, was published, making Lagrov a famous Swedish novelist. 1894, she created a collection of short stories, The Tangible Lock Ring. During this period, her main works also include the novel The Story of a False Christ (1897), The Collection of Ancient Scandinavian Myths (1899) and the epic novel Jerusalem (1901-/) which focuses on the life of Swedish immigrants in Palestine. From 65438 to 0902, Selma Lagoff was entrusted by the Swedish National Teachers' Union to write a textbook introducing geography, biology and folk customs in the form of stories for children. Four years later, the novel "Riding a Goose", written in the form of fairy tales, was published and immediately became a hit, with 3.5 million copies issued. It is a vivid, wonderful and inspiring children's story. In the story, the protagonist Niels is a naughty, lazy and selfish child. One day, he played a trick on the elf and was turned into a human being as short as the elf. At the same time, he could understand the words of various animals. He started a journey with a domestic goose and a flock of wild geese, during which he helped the wild geese out of danger; Help owls and bats solve the problem of being besieged by rats; He met a fierce fox and a black bear who lost his home because of industrial development ... These experiences earned him the respect of animals and he became a caring child. In view of Selma La Gerf's outstanding contribution to her writing, she won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature with "lofty idealism, rich imagination and simple and elegant style". 19 14, she was elected as the first female member of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Swedish Academy. Her last novel, The Story of Christmas, was published in 1938, showing the author's sympathy for the workers. 1940 March 16, Selma Lagoff died in the manor. Shortly before her death, the woman writer also used her personal influence to rescue the Jewish woman writer from the concentration camp through negotiations between the Swedish royal family and the Nazi regime in Germany. Later, she obtained Nobel Prize in Literature Nelly Sachs and her mother with 1966.