Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909, announced November 11, 1909. Selma Lagerlöf, “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings”. Selma Lagerlöf: born 1858, Mårbacka, Sweden. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).