Nobel Prize

My birth in July 1928 in Methuen, Massachusetts was followed just eighteen months later by the death of my father, Elias, a successful business man in that community 30 miles north of Boston. My mother, Fatina (née Hasham), changed my name from William to Elias shortly after my father’s passing. I do not remember my…

Contents: Based on materials from the 1990 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 11, 1990 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 Octavio Paz “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity” This year the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Mexican writer, poet and essayist Octavio Paz, honouring a writer of Spanish with a…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, for the second time in succession, to a writer from the Spanish-speaking world, it is a reminder of the exceptional literary vitality and richness of…

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. On his father’s side, his grandfather was a prominent liberal intellectual and one of the first authors to write a novel with an expressly Indian theme. Thanks to his grandfather’s extensive library, Paz came into early contact with literature. Like his grandfather, his father was also…

Works in Spanish Poetry Luna silvestre. – México : Fabula, 1933 No pasaran!. – México : Simbad, 1936 Raíz del hombre. – México : Simbad, 1937 Bajo tu clara sombra y otros poemas sobre España. – Valencia : Españolas, 1937 Entre la piedra y la flor. – México : Nueva Voz, 1938 A la orilla…

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Artist: Bo Larsson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker

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