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Born in Springs, South Africa, 20/11/1923. Daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer. Has lived all her life, and continues to live, in South Africa. Principal works: 10 novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, A Sport of Nature, My Son’s Story and her most recent, None to Accompany Me. 10…

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(pdf) The interview was translated by Liu Pu Zheng. Interview translation [Yan Shuang Lindblom] Firstly, congratulations … what was your feeling when you received the news of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature? [Mo Yan] I feel so surprised … when I heard this, because I considered the…

English translation of the interview with Mo Yan, 6 December 2012. The interviewer is YuSie Rundkvist Chou. The interview was made in Chinese, here transcribed by Svensk Medietext AB. Mr Mo Yan, I’d like to congratulate you to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. First of all, I’d like to ask you… You were born…

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Transcript from an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa during his visit to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 23 May 2014. Who has most inspired you as a writer? Mario Vargas Llosa: I had of course the models of great writers and many … very important for me was the case of Flaubert for example.…

German “Die Sprache hat andere Augen” Transcript of the telephone interview with Herta Müller immediately following the announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, 8 October 2009. The interview was recorded minutes after the announcement and conducted in Müller’s native German. The interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. [Herta Müller] Hallo … [Marika Griehsel]…

Interview transcript English [Herta Müller] Hello … [Marika Griehsel] Ms. Müller, congratulations. My name is Marika Griehsel and I am calling from the Nobel Foundation’s website offices. Again, our warmest congratulations… [HM] Thank you. [MG] You write in German, and you once said that writing is very important to…