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...OLOF LAGERLOF...
Died. Selma Lagerlof, 81, novelist (Gosta Berling, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The General's Ring) and grand old lady of Swedish letters; of peritonitis; in Marbacka, Sweden. First woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy, she last January gave her gold Nobel medal (intrinsic value about $500) to the Swedish national collection for Finland...
...first thought was "O pu sing sin" (Chinese for "I don't believe it"). Her first words were, "That's ridiculous; it's incredible." Outclassed by earlier prize-winners like William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann, by women novelists like Selma Lagerlof or Sigrid Undset who have won it before her, Pearl Buck would be placed by most critics below such U. S. possibilities as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks...
HARVEST-Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran...
...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...