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DEATH OF SELMA LAGERLOF. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, March 16. The death is announced of the Swedish, authoress, Selma Lagerlof. Selma Lagerlof, one of the most noted writers of the present, day, was born in Verrmland in 1858. The success of her first books, notably “Gosta Berling,” published in 1891, enabled her after 1895 to give up her career as a teacher and devote herself entirely to authorship. Her last book translated into English was her diary, published in 1937. She received many honours, most notable of them being the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to her in 1909. She became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1914.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 10
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112NOTED AUTHORESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 10
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