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