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Selma Lagerlöf

Swedish writer (1858–1940).

Born November 20th, 1858 in Östra Ämtervik church parish. [ref]

Died March 16th, 1940 at 81 years old in Östra Ämtervik church parish (stroke).

Occupations
autobiographer, biographer, children's writer, novelist, poet, prose writer, teacher, translator, writer

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks