Greta Garbo.

When Selma Lagerlöf wrote Gösta Berlings Saga she set it in her beloved province of Värmland and in particular at the Rottneros manor, that she calls Ekeby in the book. We write about Rottneros and its beautiful park in the September issue of Swedish Press and as we are not your typical magazine, we also help you to connect with Gösta Berlings Saga. If you select "September'11" in our "MustHave" section you will find the story both in Swedish and English and an easy way to order it. We have also posted the film version of the story that made Greta Garbo a star. It used to be that Sweden's "Gone With the Wind" was required reading and most Swedes had read it, but Gösta Berling's Saga is now being forgotten. Do read the romantic story of the good-looking but de-frocked clergyman who was taken in by the Majoress of Ekeby to live with her twelve aging cavaliers and then "in a turn of events that bear the devil's stamp" given one year's run of the estate. Or you can see the movie with Greta Garbo as Gösta Berling's love interest. Greta Garbo liked her privacy, but she did slip in to Swendsens on Manhattan for some Swedish goodies and one of the servers told me that she read Swedish Press there. We never got an interview with the elusive star, but in 2005 we interviewed her nephew Scott Reisfeld and you can even read that interview on several Greta Garbo sites including "Hommage an Greta Garbo" : http://www.greta-garbo.de/com/Greta-Garbos-great-nephew-Derek-Reisfields.html