Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Henrik Schück, President of the Nobel Foundation, on December 10, 1927 The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize of 1926 to the Italian author Grazia Deledda. Grazia Deledda was born in Nuoro, a small town in Sardinia. There she spent her childhood and her youth, and from the natural surroundings and…

  Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1910 Many famous writers from several countries have been proposed for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy has awarded it to a writer whose nomination has been supported by more than sixty German experts on art, literature,…

Gao Xingjian, born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (Jiangxi province) in eastern China, is today a French citizen. Writer of prose, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist. Gao Xingjian grew up during the aftermath of the Japanese invasion, his father was a bank official and his mother an amateur actress who stimulated the young Gao’s…

English Biobibliographical Notes Gao Xingjian, born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (Jiangxi province) in eastern China, is today a French citizen. Writer of prose, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist. Gao Xingjian grew up during the aftermath of the Japanese invasion, his father was a bank official and his mother an amateur actress who stimulated…

John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California. After…

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Swedish Presentationstal av professor Peter Englund, Ständige Sekreterare, sekreterare i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2013. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Det kan verka som en paradox men är egentligen helt logiskt: det…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the , Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2013. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Laureates,…

Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia The First Italian Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize in Literature by Anders Hallengren This article was published on 2 September 2002. A Wintry Nordic Night in 1927 At 6:45 p.m., during the lunar eclipse of an exceptionally dark and frosty winter evening on December 8, 1927, a small Italian…

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