Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Selma Lagerlöf
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Standard Name: Lagerlöf, Selma
Used Form: Selma Lagerlof
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10 December 1909: Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to...
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10 December 1909
Selma Lagerlöf
became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature, in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
