Selma Lagerlöf - Mårbacka Ett barns memoarer Dagbok

"If you want to become a writer, you have to be grateful and happy for everything that happens to you. You have to be content, even if you should run into things that are sad and hard, because otherwise you would not later be able to describe what it feels like to be unhappy." From Mårbacka.

The Mårbacka Suite is Selma Lagerlöf's autobiographical books, each made up of short stories drawn from her childhood home in Värmland. In a way, these are the most realistic books she wrote, at least on the surface. But they also contain many of the peculiar tales she heard told, and several characters and events will be recognizable from her novels. Which version came first is not always possible to work out - even the autobiography and the diary take shape as literary works.

The Mårbacka estate was owned by Selma Lagerlöf's family for several generations, but in the mid-1880s the family was forced to sell for financial reasons. Thanks to her success, Selma Lagerlöf managed to buy back