1998

Press release

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 8, 1998 The Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 José Saramago “who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality” The Portuguese writer José Saramago will be 76 in November. A writer of prose, from a working-class…

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Press release

Portuguese Academia Sueca O Secretário permanente Communicado à imprensa 8 de Outubro de 1998 Prémio Nobel da Literatura 1998 José Saramago “que, com parábolas portadoras de imaginação, compaixão e ironia torna constantemente compreensível uma realidade fugidia” O português José Saramago faz 76 anos de idade em Novembro. É um prosador oriundo da classe trabalhadora que…

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Press release

French Académie suédoise Le secrétaire perpetuel Communiqué de presse Le 8 octobre 1998 Prix Nobel de littérature 1998 José Saramago « qui, grâce à des paraboles soutenues par l’imagination, la compassion et l’ironie, rend sans cesse à nouveau tangible une réalité fuyante » Le Portugais José Saramago va avoir 76 ans en novembre. C’est un…

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Award ceremony speech

Professor Francis Sejersted delivering his speech. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Professor Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 1998. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On Good Friday this year, an agreement was signed which has rightly been seen as a breakthrough…

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Biographical

John Hume is married to Pat and they have three daughters and two sons. He was a leader of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement in 1968 to 1969 having established a record of community leadership through his founding role in Derry Credit Union, Derry Housing Association and his organisation of the “University for Derry” campaign.…

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Biographical

David Trimble was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland on 15 October 1944. He was educated at Bangor Grammar School, and graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1968 with a first-class honours degree in Law. He was called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1969, and, in the same year, became a lecturer in Law at…

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