| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Lagerlöf, Selma Ottiliana Lovisa |
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| SYLLABICATION: | La·ger·löf |
| PRONUNCIATION: | lä g r-l v, -lf |
| DATES: | 18581940 |
| Swedish writer whose novels include Gösta Berlings Saga (1891). In 1909 she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
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