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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (November 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. She was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.

Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Hippius) (November 20, [O.S. November 8] 1869 – September 9, 1945) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. The story of her marriage to Dmitri Merezhkovsky, which lasted 52 years, is described in her unfinished book Dmitri Merezhkovsky. After the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Merezhkovskys became critics of Tsarism. They denounced the 1917 October Revolution, seeing it as a cultural disaster, and in 1919 emigrated to Poland.