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Mårbacka
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Mårbacka is a manor house in Sunne Municipality in Värmland, Sweden. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Selma Lagerlöf, was born and raised at Mårbacka. Today, the manor building and the surrounding area is kept as a memorial museum honoring her literary career.

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Building.name
Mårbacka
Building.image
Selma Lagerlofs Marbacka at Sunne.jpg
Building.location
Sunne Municipality
Building.location_country
Sweden
Building.architect
Isak Gustaf Clason
Building.building_type
Manor house

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www.marbacka.com
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Selma Lagerlofs Marbacka at Sunne.jpg
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Mårbacka
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1796-01-01
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  • Early history
  • Selma Lagerlöf
  • Today
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Mårbacka is a manor house in Sunne Municipality in Värmland, Sweden. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Selma Lagerlöf, was born and raised at Mårbacka. Today, the manor building and the surrounding area is kept as a memorial museum honoring her literary career.

==Early history== The estate was owned from about 1720 by the assistant vicar Olof Morell and then was inherited by two of his successors in office. The main building was constructed in 1793. In 1801 it was inherited by the Lagerlöf family and when Selma Lagerlöf's father Lieutenant Gustaf Lagerlöf died in 1885 his son Johan took over, but he was unsuccessful running the farm. He went bankrupt and moved to America. The family lost the ownership of the estate in 1889.

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