The first woman who won the Nobel Prize in literature

Last night I was reading some parts of The Wonderful Adventure of Nils and I found it awesome that tempted me to know more about the author. I found her to be the first women, from Sweden, in the world who got the Nobel Prize in literature.
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf, an internationally acclaimed female author, who won The Nobel prize in literature in1909 for her widely known fairy tale ‘Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige’ (The Wonderful Adventure of Nils) which was written after three years of devoted studies on nature and birds’ life. She was awarded for her "lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception".
She was born on 20th November 1858 in Mårbacka, in the province of Värmland in southern, and spent her childhood there. She had a great passion for reading from childhood and was much more mature than others of her age. She started her journey by taking part in a literary contest which she won and furthered.
She changed the realistic movement and emphasized on imaginative and romantic manner which drew the attention of masses readers; in a nutshell she abolished the border between the dream and reality. Danish translation of her first book Gösta Berlings Saga received wide critical acclaim all over the world and led the way of lasting success. Her later works are Löwensköldska Ringen (1925), Charlotte Löwensköld (1927), and Anna Svärd (1928) [The Ring of the Löwenskölds, 3 vols.]. She also published several volumes of reminiscences under the title Mårbacka (1922-32) that earned fame for her. On 16th March 1940, she died of a stroke at her home. Some of her books became text book in Swedish schools.

......Mousumi