Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature is not only for novelists. Several literature laureates have been recognised for their remarkable poetry, which they have used to share the fight against oppression. Laureates including Bob Dylan and Gabriela Mistral have penned powerful poems that distil important issues, such as women’s rights and colonialism, into visionary verse, as…

Read an excerpt from a book written by a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. Or choose a poem from an array of poetry excerpts. Pick a title! Prose Excerpts from Human Acts by Han Kang, Nobel Prize laureate in literature 2024 Excerpt from The Other Name. Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, Nobel Prize laureate in…

English Seven Strophes I was but what you’d brush with your palm, what your leaning brow would hunch to in evening’s raven-black hush. I was but what your gaze in that dark could distinguish: a dim shape to begin with, later – features, a face. It was you, on my right, on my left, with…

Swedish Sju strofer och dagar Jag var bara det, som du berörde med handen, över vilket du lutade pannan i nattens korpsvarta djup. Jag var bara det, som du vagt kunde skönja där nere; först oklarheten inkarnerad, långt senare – ansiktsdrag. Det var du som, het, i mitt vänstra och mitt högra öra skapade musslan…