Han Kang’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your majesties, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. I remember the day when I was eight years old. As I was leaving my afternoon abacus lesson, the skies opened in a sudden downpour. This rain was so fierce that two dozen children wound up…

English Presentation speech by Author Ellen Mattson, Member of the Swedish Academy, Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Two colours meet in Han Kang’s writing: white and red. The white is the snow that falls in so many of her books, drawing a…

Swedish Presentationstal av Ellen Mattson, ledamot av Svenska Akademien, ledamot av Svenska Akademiens Nobelkommitté, 10 december 2024. Eders Majestäter, Ärade pristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, Två färger möts i Han Kangs författarskap – vitt och rött. Det vita är snön som faller i så många av hennes böcker, den drar en skyddande ridå mellan berättaren och…

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Han Kang delivered her Nobel Prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2024 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. She was introduced by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2024General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2024, 5:00 p.m. CET.…

Swedish Utdrag ur Levande och döda I Pojken. 1980 “Det ser ut att bli regn”, muttrar du för dig själv. Vad gör vi om det börjar vräka ner? Du sluter ögonen så att bara en smal strimma ljus sipprar in och kisar mot ginkgoträden framför Provinskontoret. Som om vinden är på väg att anta synlig…

From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity. The Nobel Prizes 2024 have awarded discoveries and achievements that have benefitted humankind in a myriad of ways.…

English Excerpts from Human Acts I The Boy. 1980 ‘Looks like rain,’ you mutter to yourself. What’ll we do if it really chucks it down? You open your eyes so that only a slender chink of light seeps in, and peer at the gingko trees in front of the Provincial Office. As though there, between…