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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909

"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
Sweden
b. 1858
d. 1940
 
 
 
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