Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 Nov 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. 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 award
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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 Nov 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. 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. Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. She was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years before her first novel Gösta Berling's Saga was published.
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