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Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.

20 November 1858

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