Selma Lagerlöf Prize
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The Selma Lagerlöf Prize is a Swedish literary prize awarded to an author writing in the spirit of Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Su
Selma Lagerlöf pained by Carl Larsson in 1908
Tove Jansson
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Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage stamp designer, her fa
Selma Lagerlöf Prize
…1991 – Lars Gyllensten 1992 – Tove Jansson 1993 – Georg Henrik von Wright…
c. 1970
Jansson in 1923
Jansson in 1956 with Moomintroll dolls made by Atelier Fauni
Cover of Garm magazine, October 1944, lampooning Adolf Hitler as "self-important and comic"