Hi, welcome to "Her Power".
"Her Power" will take you to understand the outstanding women in literature, art, politics, science and technology, and try to objectively present the difficulties faced by these outstanding women in different eras and their coping methods, so that you can absorb their wisdom and strength.
Today, I will take you to the world's first Nobel Prize-winning Swedish female writer, Selma Lagerlov.
Portrait of Selma Lagerlov – Swedish painter Carl Larsen
Selma · Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940), born on November 20, 1858 in Morbacca Manor, central Sweden, has written novels such as Jerusalem and the fairy tale Nils's Journey on a Goose.
Morbaca Estate
In 1909, his work "Nils Riding a Goose" won the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is the first time that the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to her own people and to women, and her reasons for winning the prize are: "the noble idealism, rich imagination, and easy and beautiful style that are characteristic of the work".
Author like
Fate had struck her twice, but she had been transformed into a positive force
Shortly after the birth of Selma Lageroff, her left foot became crippled, and at the age of 3 and a half, her feet were completely paralyzed and unable to move. Although she, too, loves adventures like other little girls, the leg disability only allows her to sit in a chair and listen to her grandmother, aunt and many others tell legends and stories. Infused with these stories, she developed a keen interest in creation, and later embarked on a "writing adventure", saying that "disability made me sit down and face myself, which is why I became a writer." ”
Family photo in 1827 Thermo Lagerlöv on the left
Growing up, Selma Lageroff decided to become a female teacher and entered a women's normal college to begin her studies. A year before she graduated, there was a turnaround in the family, and they lost the Morbacca estate due to her father's poor management. When bad luck came, Selma thought she might not be able to marry, but she quickly adjusted herself, perked up, and came up with the seemingly absurd idea of starting to write, and one day I could buy my estate after selling a lot of books.
Therefore, while working as a female teacher, she worked late at night, and at the same time actively added political rallies to participate in the world peace movement.
In 1891, her first novel, The Story of Belling, came out. The novel became a Swedish bestseller at the time, becoming a well-known writer in Sweden, and she was greatly encouraged to create it. In 1924, the work was adapted into the film The Story of Costa Berlin, which was led by the Swedish film goddess Greta Garbo, which was also garbo's famous work.
Garbo in the movie Costa Berlin
It took four years to create and win the Nobel Prize, advocating human kindness and harmony with nature
In 1902, she was invited by the Swedish National Union of Teachers to write a textbook on Swedish geography, biology and folklore. She spent four years wading through the mountains and rivers in Sweden, and finally through her rich imagination and profound creative skills, she wrote these materials into "Nils's Goose Ride", breaking through people's definition of "textbook".
Nils Rides the Goose
In this work, through the adventures of a young boy riding a great white goose, "Nils", she incorporates her own ideas about environmental protection, about plague, and about people and animals. The book chronicles many real social issues, such as the decision of the Swedes to fill Lake Token, Sweden's largest bird colony, in 1902, which was later rejected in the conservation movement, and the protagonist of the story, Nils, also experienced the story of "protecting" Lake Token.
German adaptation of the film "Nils Rides a Goose"
From 1906 to 1907, Nils's Journey on a Goose was published as a history and geography textbook. This special "textbook" became one of the most popular fairy tale works in the world. In 1909, Selma Lagerlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and in 1914 he was elected a fellow of the Swedish Academy.
The memorial statue "Nils Holgersson" in Karlskrona, Sweden
Give back to the world the power she has taken herself from her story
In her Nobel Prize-winning thanks speech, she expressed her "indebtedness" - the countless fairy tales and heroic legends told by the old people, the songs and burlesques sung by the wandering artists, the moving stories told by the monks and nuns, all of which made her receive a lot of favors, and she did not know how to return these incomparably heavy gifts given to her by her predecessors.
Therefore, Selma Lageroff has been actively helping others and giving back to the world throughout her life. She continues to create, not only giving back to the world through her works, but also exerting her strength in major social events.
On her deathbed at the age of 81, she negotiated with the German Nazis through the Swedish royal family and successfully rescued the German Jewish writer Nelly Sachs and her mother in the concentration camp at that time. Nelly was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.
Nelly Sachs (left)
After the outbreak of World War II, Selma Lagerlov gave her Nobel Medal to the Finnish government to raise money for the Soviet-Finnish War. The Finnish government was very impressed, but returned the medal to her.
From 1991 onwards, her portrait appeared on the Swedish currency 20 CZK banknote.
The power that Selma Lageroff leaves for every woman is:
Because of her leg disability and love to write, she "transforms" the doom of reality into a positive life force through her imagination, literary creativity and strong humanistic care, and once again feeds back to the world. In her, we see a positive cycle of love and strength. Her literary works advocate the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, advocate mutual care between people, and she is also practicing this simple and simple but not easy to achieve criterion with actions. She showed people what was truly noble in their hearts, and that these were beyond any reward that the secular world could give her.
Today's content is these, if you like my article, you can follow "her power" or share it with your friends, thank you.