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1909 Nobel Prize in Literature information


1909 Nobel Prize in Literature
Selma Lagerlöf
"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."
Date
  • 7 October 1909 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1909
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."[1] She became the first woman and first Swede to be awarded the prize.

In his award ceremony speech on 10 December 1909, Claes Annerstedt of the Swedish Academy said:

"Geijer, Tegnér, or Runeberg, to mention only them, could justly have laid claim to the Nobel Prize, and the development which these great men have started has grown to fuller bloom. But among the writers of the younger generation who have contributed so much to our literature, there is one name that enjoys the special splendour of a star of the first magnitude. In the works of Selma Lagerlöf we seem to recognize the purest and best features of our Great Swedish Mother."[2]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ Award ceremony speech by Claes Annerstedt nobelprize.org

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