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Events Nov 2009

5 Nov 2009

Selma Lagerlöf , Nobel Prize winning author.

Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Selma Lagerlöf´s Nobel Prize, Dr Helena Forsås-Scott gives a lunchtime talk on the enduring legacy of the Swedish author

Selma Lagerlöf  was the first woman  to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and her novels inspired epoch-making early films.When she turned 80 she was one of the most widely translated Swedish authors ever, and her work continues to attract new readers today. This lecture gives a flavour of the range of her writing, looks at the explanations for her success and tests the findings of more text-focused scholarship.
Free entrance

For information on time and place see
www.ucl.ac.uk

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