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English Günter Grass delivered his Nobel Lecture in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 7 December 1999. “To Be Continued …” Honoured Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen: Having made this announcement, nineteenth-century works of fiction…

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Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr of Polish-German parents. After military service and captivity by American forces 1944-46, he worked as a farm labourer and miner and studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin. 1956-59 he made his living as a sculptor, graphic artist and writer in Paris, and subsequently Berlin. In 1955 Grass…

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Swedish Tomas Tranströmer föddes 15 april 1931 som son till Gösta och Helmy, född Westerberg. Eftersom föräldrarna skildes när Tomas var tre år, växte han upp i Stockholm med sin mor, som var lärarinna. Somrarna tillbringade de i morfaderns lotshus på Runmarö i den stockholmska skärgården, en miljö som alltid varit en viktig utgångspunkt för…

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English Tomas Tranströmer was born on April 15, 1931, the son of Gösta and Helmy, née Westerberg. His parents divorced when Thomas was three years old, so he grew up in Stockholm with his mother, who was a schoolteacher. They spent their summers at his maternal grandfather’s pilot station on the island of Runmarö in…