Nobel Prize

In their autobiographies, Nobel Prize laureates reveal their reading habits: how they got started, who spurred them to read on, and where they spent their time losing themselves between the pages of a book. Find out and compare with your own experience, or simply get inspired! Latest book “Indeed in elementary school I often kept…

Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Günter Grass född 1927 i Danzig-Langfuhr av polsk-tyska föräldrar. Efter krigstjänst och amerikansk fångenskap 1944-46 arbetade han som lant- och gruvarbetare, studerade konst i Düsseldorf och Berlin. Försörjde sig 1956-59 som skulptör, grafiker och författare i Paris, därefter i Berlin. Grass inträdde 1955 i den samhällskritiska Gruppe 47 (senare hyllad i Mötet…

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Transcript from an interview with Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, on 6 December 2006. Interviewer is Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. My name is Horace Engdahl, I am the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish academy, and here beside me is Mr…

Interview transcript My name is Horace Engdahl, I am the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, and I welcome here today in the studio Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. V. S. Naipaul: Thank you. Nobel Laureate in Literature of the year 2001. Sir Vidia, if you try to think back to your beginnings as…

Interview transcript (English translation) Hello, I am Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. Today’s guest is the Nobel Literature Prize winner, Günter Grass, and we are very pleased today to have the opportunity to ask Mr Grass a few questions. In this I have the assistance of a colleague. My…

“Culture means a mix of things from other sources” [Orhan Pamuk] – Hello. [Adam Smith] – Hello, may I speak to Orhan Pamuk please? Hello? [OP] – Hello. [AS] – Hello, may I speak to Orhan Pamuk please? [OP] – Speaking. [AS] – Oh, my name is Adam Smith…

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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…

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…