Lagerlöf, Selma

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Lagerlöf, Selma (1858–1940) Swedish novelist. Her lyrical work Story of Gösta Berling (1891) became immensely popular. A visit to Palestine inspired her greatest novel, Jerusalem (1901). In 1909 she became the first Swedish writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.

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