WRITER

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 - 1940

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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, US also , Swedish: [ˈsɛ̂lːma ˈlɑ̂ːɡɛˌɭøːv] ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Selma Lagerlöf has received more than 884,607 page views. Her biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 111 in 2019). Selma Lagerlöf is the 35th most popular writer (up from 87th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Writer.

Selma Lagerlöf is most famous for her novel, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. The book tells the story of a boy, Nils, who sails with his grandfather to the North Pole and back.

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  • 81.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 114

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 35 out of 7,302. Before her are Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, Horace, Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, and Anne Frank. After her are Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, and Charles Baudelaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 4. Before her are Max Planck, Émile Durkheim, and Giacomo Puccini. After her are Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Gustaf V of Sweden, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, Omar Mukhtar, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Giuseppe Peano. Among people deceased in 1940, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 2. Before her is Leon Trotsky. After her are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, Neville Chamberlain, J. J. Thomson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Carl Bosch, and Peter Behrens.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 4 out of 1,879. Before her are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Alfred Nobel (1833), and Ingmar Bergman (1918). After her are Astrid Lindgren (1907), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Anders Celsius (1701), Tycho Brahe (1546), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), August Strindberg (1849), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), and Charles XII of Sweden (1682).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf ranks 1. After her are Astrid Lindgren (1907), August Strindberg (1849), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Henning Mankell (1948), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Ellen Key (1849), and Per Olov Enquist (1934).

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