Amazing journey of Niels Holgerss with wild geese in Sweden

In 2020, he marks the 80th anniversary of the death of the Swedish writer, the Nobel Prize laureate in literature, an outstanding storyteller of Selma Laherlef. In the series" Nigma. The chosen one “The most significant work comes out - the fabulous story "The amazing journey of Niels Holgerss with wild geese in Sweden" in full translation from the Swedish Lyudmila Yulievna Brauda, ​​a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, an honorary member of the Society of S. Lagerlef, Laureate of the Literary Prize Astrid Lindgren.
Niels"s story was conceived as a geography textbook. With its help, the author dreamed of introducing Swedish children to their native country, its rich nature and an interesting history. Being not only a teacher, but also a talented fairy tale, Selma Laherlef came up with a trip to a trip to Sweden of the most ordinary boy, but in the company of wild geese. Geese showed the young hero the whole country - from industrial cities to tiny villages, from coastal cliffs to the Lapland tundra. Help in the collection of material was provided to the author by teachers of people"s schools. In addition, the writer herself repeated the Niels route.
Niels"s story brought to Selm Lagerlief world recognition and the Nobel Prize in literature in 1909. The book was translated into many languages. In the Soviet Union, it came out in an abbreviated form, from which many key points of the story and colorful descriptions were removed. And only in the 1980s, Lyudmila Brude made a complete translation from the Swedish language. It is this version of the text that we will see in the book of the Publishing House "Nigma".
The story of the Selma Laherlef is relevant today. It affects one of the most important problems - the relationship of man and nature. Drawing the attention of readers to the ecology, the author significantly ahead of his time. In the mouth of the main characters - wild geese - she puts important thoughts. It recalls that you need to take care of all living things that animals and birds have the same right to life as a person.
The illustrations of Maria Sutyatina transfer the reader to Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Maria is a laureate of the prize "image of a book", a participant in art exhibitions, a book schedule and an illustrator