Selma Lagerlof Death Cause and Date

Selma Lagerlof's Death

Born (Birthday) November 20, 1858

Death Date March 16, 1940

Age of Death 81 years

Cause of Death Pneumonia

Profession Novelist

The novelist Selma Lagerlof died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

A Swedish author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, she is best known for her Wonderful Adventures of Nils book series. Her other literary works include The Changeling, The Outcast, and numerous other novels, short stories, plays, and memoirs.

She was the fourth child born to Erik and Louise Lagerlöf. In the mid-1890s she fell in love with fellow writer, Sophie Elkan.

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I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

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What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don’t forget all those who have written of me.

Selma Lagerlof Death Cause and Date
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I had become shy of life’s bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

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Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

Selma Lagerlof Death Cause and Date