Lagerlöf

American  

[lah-guhr-lœf] / ˈlɑ gərˌlœf /

noun

1. Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.

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Lagerlöf British  

/ ˈlɑːɡərløːv /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

In the words of culture strategist Sofia Lagerlöf Määttä, "it's like finally, let's get it done. We've been waiting for so many years".

From BBC

"The church has served as a spiritual centre and a gathering place for the community for generations," says Sofia Lagerlöf Määttä, who remembers walking into the church for the first time as a young child with her grandmother.

From BBC

One of the most compelling, exciting experiences I had as a child was reading "The Diary of Selma Lagerlöf."

From Salon

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