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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?

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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
posted Aug 14, 2017 by anonymous

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Marie Curie
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

answer Aug 16, 2017 by Shivaranjini 1 abuse reported
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The first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature was Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden) who won the prize in 1909. Selma became a member of the Swedish Academy - the body that awards the prize, in 1909.

answer Sep 28, 2017 by Meetu Vikas Singh
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