LAGERLOF SELMA: (1858-1940) Swedish Author. Nobel prize in Literature in 1909. The first female writer awarded with the Nobel. Rare A.L., one page, oblong 4to, Marbacka, 3^rd March 1930, to Henri Corbiere, in French. Lagerlof responds to her correspondent´s questionnaire to the verso, about her debuts, her initial incomes, her major works, and which one she considers the most important one, and states in part `Ce qui a été difficile c´était de trouver une manière juste de composer… a l ´époque de mon début je fus professeur a mon lycée de jeunes filles…´ (“What was difficult was to find a fair way to compose… at the time of my debut I was a teacher at my school for young girls..”) Further and responding to the question of which work made her known to the readers, Lagerlof answers `Gosha Berling´, and to the last question about which one of her works she considers the best, Lagerlof responds `I do not wish to respond to that question´. Small overall minor age toning, otherwise G to VG

 

Gosta Berling´s Saga (1891) was Lagerlof´s debut novel. It was made into a silent film in 1924 starring Greta Garbo.