Nobel Prize

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.…

English 7 December, 2014 I would simply like to tell you how happy I am to be here with you and how touched I am by the honour you have done me in awarding me the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is the first time I have had to…

English 7 December, 2015 On the Battle Lost I do not stand alone at this podium … There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood. I grew up in the countryside. As children, we loved to play outdoors, but come evening, the voices of tired village women…

Russian 7 Декабрь 2015 О проигранной битве Я стою на этой трибуне не одна … Вокруг меня голоса, сотни голосов, они всегда со мной. С моего детства. Я жила в деревне. Мы, дети, любили играть на улице, но вечером нас, как магнитом, тянуло к скамейкам, на которых собирались возле своих домов или хат, как говорят…

Swedish 7 December 2015 Om ett förlorat fältslag Jag står inte ensam i den här talarstolen … Runt omkring mig finns röster, hundratals röster, de är alltid med mig. Ända sedan min barndom. Jag bodde i en by. Vi barn älskade att vara ute och leka, men på kvällen drogs vi, som av en magnet,…

German 7. Dezember 2015 Von einer verlorenen Schlacht Ich stehe auf diesem Podium nicht allein … Ich bin umgeben von Stimmen, von Hunderten Stimmen, sie sind immer bei mir. Seit meiner Kindheit. Ich lebte auf dem Land. Wir Kinder spielten gern draußen, doch abends wurde wir magnetisch angezogen von den Bänken, auf denen sich vor…