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Chain of Enigma. In flight from Nazi Germany, she went to Sweden in 1940 through the combined efforts of a member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began...
...Merrill ($2.50). Although Iceland is known to Europeans for the lively ferment of its modern literary movement, few modern Icelandic novelists have been translated into English. In Europe, 49-year-old Gunnar Gunnarsson, author of 30-odd books and plays, ranks with Scandinavian writers of the calibre of Selma Lagerlöf. Ships in the Sky is considered his major work. A long, simply written, autobiographical novel, it tells the story of a redheaded, imaginative peasant boy named Uggi Greipsson. Its distinguishing qualities are an unforced humor combined with uninhibited sentiment, clear characterizations of an Icelandic peasant family...
...ladies who can count their medals few can finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains...
...legends, reminiscences, travel sketches, reprinted speeches. And the book is not an anthology of brilliant blossoms; epigrammarians will find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy memories, in feelings of regret and gratitude...
Marbacka is still in good Lagerlöf hands. Old lady Selma Lagerlöf spends her summers there, in the modernized manor house (see cut), oversees the cultivation of its 140 acres, the welfare of its 53 tenants...