Selma Lagerlöf – Timelessly Relevant

 

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first woman to be elected to the Swedish Academy, teacher and author of the textbook ‘Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden’, written on commission for the National Teachers’ Association. One of Sweden’s best known writers globally. Speakers: Anna Nordlund, author; Anna-Karin Palm, author; Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy and Director of the Swedish Literature Bank; Eva-Lis Sirén, the Teachers’ Foundation. Presenter: Gunilla Kindstrand, journalist.

 

Speakers: Mats Malm, Anna Nordlund, Anna-Karin Palm, Eva-Lis Sirén.
Presenter: Gunilla Kindstrand.

 

Organised by: Läsrörelsen (the Reading Movement) in partnership with the Swedish Academy, the Swedish Literature Bank, the Teachers’ Foundation and the Mårbacka Foundation.