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László Krasznahorkai’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies andGentlemen, I wish to thank the Swedish Academy, and the Nobel Foundation! Thank you! I thank all of my publishers and translators, I thank the building of the Swedish Academy and the dear light falling…

Joel Mokyr’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear laureates,Ladies and gentlemen! On behalf of my co-winners and friends, of the Collège de France and of Brown University, I would like to thank the Nobel Foundation, the  Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) and the Central Bank of Sweden…

Mary E. Brunkow’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professors and , I would like to thank the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation.  On October 6, while I was desperately trying to sleep through the 1:00am scam calls…

Omar M. Yaghi’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear laureates,Ladies and gentlemen— On behalf of my co-laureates , , and myself, I thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Tonight, we celebrate not only achievement but possibility—the power of human…

Michel H. Devoret’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professor , Professor and myself, we wish to thank The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for the extraordinary honor of this prize.  It is a mystery to me why my…

Opening address by Professor Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, at the 2025 Nobel Prize award ceremony. Speech by Professor Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,Esteemed Nobel Prize Laureates, Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, it is…

Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 2025

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Anders OlssonLedamot av Svenska AkademienOrdförande för Svenska Akademiens Nobelkommitté Eders Majestäter, ärade Nobelpristagare,mina damer och herrar! Med årets litteraturpris till den ungerske författaren belönas en sällsam urkraft i samtidens litteratur. Redan med sitt debutverk Satantango från 1985 väckte han sensation. Med stark suggestion skildras en grupp uppgivna själar på ett övergivet…

English Presented by Professor Göran JohanssonMember of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMember of the Nobel Committee for Physics Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,Esteemed Nobel Prize Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, The fundamental and yet counterintuitive laws of quantum physics have inspired human imagination since they were discovered. One hundred years ago, in the summer of…