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One of the most compelling, exciting experiences I had as a child was reading "The Diary of Selma �����������ö��."

Another warm-up reading tip is a novel by Selma �����������ö��, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909: “Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness,” a ghost story about a very bad man who dies on New Year’s Eve.

The fleeting Nordic summer, a respite from the darkness of interminable winter, is “the loveliest time of the year,” the Swedish author Selma Lagerlof wrote, with some understatement, in “The Story of Gosta Berling”: “Everything was beautiful. The road, gray and dusty as it was, had its border of flowers.”

In the first week of our course, there were rumours that Karin was related to the Nobel Prize-winning author, Selma �����������ö��, and that she had been the editor and theatre critic of Sweden’s hippest magazine, Nöjesguiden.

The picture, by photographer David Lagerlof, has been widely shared on social media and by newspapers and websites around the world.