Lagerlöf

[ lah-guhr-lœf ]

noun

1. Sel·ma (Ot·ti·li·a·na Lo·vi·sa) [sel, -mah awt-ti-lee-, ah, -nah , loo, -vi-sah], 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.

Lagerlöf

/ ˈlɑːɡərløːv /

noun

1. LagerlöfSelma18581940FSwedishWRITING: novelist Selma (ˈsɛlma). 1858–1940, Swedish novelist, noted esp for her children's classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906–07): Nobel prize for literature 1909

Example Sentences

Another warm-up reading tip is a novel by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909: “Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness,” a ghost story about a very bad man who dies on New Year’s Eve.

From New York Times

The fleeting Nordic summer, a respite from the darkness of interminable winter, is “the loveliest time of the year,” the Swedish author Selma Lagerlof wrote, with some understatement, in “The Story of Gosta Berling”: “Everything was beautiful. The road, gray and dusty as it was, had its border of flowers.”

From New York Times

In the first week of our course, there were rumours that Karin was related to the Nobel Prize-winning author, Selma Lagerlöf, and that she had been the editor and theatre critic of Sweden’s hippest magazine, Nöjesguiden.

From The Guardian

The picture, by photographer David Lagerlof, has been widely shared on social media and by newspapers and websites around the world.

From BBC

Asplund’s lone protest comes at a time when the far-right in Sweden is increasing its activities, according to Daniel Poohl of Expo, the anti-racist foundation in Stockholm, whose photographer David Lagerlöf captured the image.

From The Guardian