The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 was awarded to Selma Lagerlöf "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings".
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