Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

The Swedish author, Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf, was a woman of many firsts. She was the first woman winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a feat she achieved in 1909. Her first novel, “Gösta Berling’s Saga,” was published when she was 33. The Värmland County-born novelist’s publications borrowed heavily from her hometown.

Lagerlöf was also the first woman to be granted membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914. The 1858-born author, credited with having a vivid imagination, became a Nobel laureate for literature for exactly that reason, and in appreciation of her spiritual perception and lofty idealism that distinguished her writings.

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