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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.…

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…

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 [Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio] Yes, Le Clézio speaking. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, my name is Adam Smith and I’m calling from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. [J-MGLC] Yes. [AS] And, would you mind if we spoke just for five minutes on the…

Interview transcript – Hello. Good morning. – Good morning, good morning, Mr Pinter. Congratulations. I’m calling from the official website of the Nobel Foundation. – Yes. Well, thank you very much. – It’s fantastic news for us here; and I would like to hear what your thoughts were when you received the…

Transcript from an interview with Derek Walcott on 28 April 2005. Interviewer is freelance journalist Simon Stanford. Derek Walcott, welcome to the interview. You were the Nobel Literature Laureate in 1992. Tell us where did it all start? What unique combination of circumstances gave Derek Walcott…

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Interview transcript Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Literature Laureate 1986, welcome to our interview. Wole Soyinka: Thank you. Let’s start right at the very beginning. What were the circumstances of your birth, your early upbringing? Wole Soyinka: I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up…

Transcript from an interview with Doris Lessing on 14 April 2008. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Hello, I’m John Mullan, I’m Professor of English at University College London and I’m here to talk to Doris Lessing, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for…