Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

Nobel Prize in Literature 1909

“in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings”

Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish novelist. She received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.