Nobel Prize

French Conference Nobel le 8 decembre 1979 Qu’il me soit permis, je vous en prie, de parler au nom de la luminosité et de la transparence. C’est par ces deux états que se définit l’espace où j’ai vécu et où il m’a été donné de m’accomplir. Etats aussi que j’ai peu à peu perçus comme…

English Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979 (Translation) May I be permitted, I ask you, to speak in the name of luminosity and transparency. The space I have lived in and where I have been able to fulfill myself is defined by these two states. States that I have also perceived as being identified in me…

  December 12, 1976 I was a very contrary undergraduate more than 40 years ago. It was my habit to register for a course and then to do most of my reading in another field of study. So that when I should have been grinding away at “Money and Banking” I was reading the novels…

Italian Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 È ancora possibile la poesia II premio Nobel è giunto al suo settantacinquesimo turno, se non sono male informato. E se molti sono gli scienziati e gli scrittori che hanno meritato questo prestigioso riconoscimento, assai minore è il numero dei superstiti che vivono e lavorano ancora. Alcuni di essi…

English Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 (Translation) Is Poetry Still Possible? The Nobel Prize has been awarded this year for the seventy-fifth time, if I am not misinformed. And if there are many scientists and writers who have earned this prestigious recognition, the number of those who are living and still working is much smaller.…

Japanese Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1968 *

English Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1968 (Translation) Japan, the Beautiful and Myself “In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer the cuckoo. In autumn the moon, and in winter the snow, clear, cold.” “The winter moon comes from the clouds to keep me company. The wind is piercing, the snow is cold.” The first of…

  Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950 What Desires Are Politically Important? Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have chosen this subject for my lecture tonight because I think that most current discussions of politics and political theory take insufficient account of psychology. Economic facts, population statistics, constitutional organization, and so on, are set forth…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1938 The Chinese Novel Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I came to consider what I should say today it seemed that it would be wrong not to speak of China. And this is none the less true because I am an American by birth and by ancestry…

Introductory speech by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich On the Battle Lost English 7 December, 2015 I do not stand alone at this podium … There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood.…