Sweden

Selma Lagerlöf: Sweden honors her with a coin, and the world with a postage stamp.

Selma Lagerlöf is a beloved figure among children and the first Swedish woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. Five years later, in 1914, she became the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy and also served on the Nobel Prize committee. Selma Lagerlöf was born in a border province between…