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Who is the first femal winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Selma Lagerlöf
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Pearl S. Buck
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Grazia Deledda
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Gabriela Mistral
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Selma Lagerlöf, in full Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf, (born Nov. 20, 1858, Mårbacka, Sweden-died March 16, 1940, Mårbacka), novelist who in 1909 became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 10 December 1909, Selma Lagerlöf won the Nobel Prize “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings", but the decision was preceded by harsh internal power struggle within the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in literature.
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