Selma LAGERL?F (1858 - 1940), translated by Velma Swanston HOWARD (1868 - 1937)
Selma Lagerl?f was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige) is a famous work of fiction by Selma Lagerl?f, published in two parts in 1906 and 1907. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools. "She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story."
塞爾瑪-拉格洛夫于1858年出生于瑞典的瓦姆蘭，作為一名作家，她擁有漫長而成功的職業(yè)生涯，1909年獲得諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)。她于1940年在瓦姆蘭去世。尼爾斯的奇妙冒險(xiǎn)》（Orig.Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige）是塞爾瑪-拉格洛夫（Selma Lagerl?f）的一部著名小說作品，分兩部分于1906年和1907年出版。出版的背景是1902年受全國教師協(xié)會委托，為公立學(xué)校編寫地理讀物。"她用了三年時(shí)間研究自然，熟悉動(dòng)物和鳥類的生活。她找來了迄今為止未曾發(fā)表的各省的民間傳說和傳奇。這些她都巧妙地編入了她的故事
