Nobel Prize

Imre Kertész: A Medium for the Spirit of Auschwitz by Madeleine Gustafsson This article was published on 17 November 2003. Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on November 9, 1929. Not yet fifteen years old, he was deported together with 7,000 other Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and thence to Buchenwald, where he was liberated in…

German Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002 Wir erleben heute eine Globalisierung, ja eine Inflation des Holocaust. Der Holocaust-Überlebende, der Auschwitz aus lebendiger Erfahrung kennt, beobachtet das alles aus der ihm zugewiesenen Ecke. Er schweigt, oder er gibt der…

English Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002 (Translation) Today we are experiencing a globalization, an inflation of the Holocaust. The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering, observes it all from the perspective assigned to him.…

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Nobel Lecture in absentia, by Alice Munro English (pdf, 1.38 MB) (pdf, 202 kB) Alice Munro: In her Own Words Conversation with Alice Munro By Stefan Åsberg, SVT The English text concerning the conversation has been the necessary starting point for the Swedish version. As the work has been done during some…

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Swedish Presentationstal av Författare Jesper Svenbro, PhD, ledamot av , 10 december 2014. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina Damer och Herrar! Knappt tio år in i Patrick Modianos författarskap hittar vi följande betydelsefulla stycke: “Jag var bara tjugo…

Translated and shortened version of the interview clips with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Literature Patrick Modiano, 6 December 2014. What made you become a writer? Patrick Modiano: I think I became a writer because I didn’t know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. I remember reading James Fenimore Cooper’s…

Interview, December 2014 Interview in French with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Literature Patrick Modiano, 6 December 2014. Patrick Modiano parle de comment il est devenu un écrivain. Patrick Modiano parle de son travaille littéraire. Patrick Modiano parle de ses romans. Patrick Modiano parle de ses sources d’inspiration. Patrick Modiano donne des…

Vos Majestés Vos Altesses Royales Excellences; Chers Lauréats; Mesdames et Messieurs; La cérémonie qui vient de se dérouler m’a profondément ému, et témoigne de la générosité et de la grâce avec laquelle vous m’avez reçu parmi vous. Cela, je ne l’oublierai jamais. Je n’oublierai jamais la gentillesse et la délicatesse des membres…