Turning away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, in 1909 Selma Lagerlöf was the novelist who became the first woman and was also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. (A) Turning away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, in 1909 Selma Lagerlöf was the novelist who became the first woman and was also the first Swedish writer to win (B) She turned away from literary realism and wrote romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, and novelist Selma Lagerlöf in 1909 became the first woman as well as the first Swedish writer that won (C) Selma Lagerlöf was a novelist who turned away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, and in 1909 she became the first woman in addition to the first Swedish writer winning (D) A novelist who turned away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, Selma Lagerlöf became in 1909 the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win (E) As a novelist, Selma Lagerlöf turned away from literary realism and wrote romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, in 1909 becoming the first woman and also the first Swedish writer that won SC01.jpg

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Hi, I was able to get the right answer following the process of elimination but I'm not sure if the the use of 'win' in "Selma Lagerlöf became in 1909 the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win" is correct or not? The entire sentence is in past tense but then we are using a present tense as a verb.
Or have we considered the writer's win as a general truth or a fact, because then the use of present tense will be justified.
Please help,
thank you.

Hi Shrihari12,

That structure (to win) is an infinitive. Infinitives can indicate time, but we shouldn't try to apply our knowledge of tenses to infinitives. More directly, the to in an infinitive can only be followed by the plain (simplest) form of a verb, like win, have, etc. For example:

1. He was the first man to walk on the moon.

2. He was the first man to walks on the moon.

3. He was the first man to walked on the moon.