Literature

Award ceremony speech

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…

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Award ceremony speech

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,…

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Article

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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Biographical

From the old stone house where I was born were views of the mountains with snow on them, and of the dusty plains that surround the little town. A high dry place. My mother said that the washing, put out to dry at eight in the morning was dry long before lunchtime. The outside world…

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Press release

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 10 oktober 2013 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2013 Alice Munro Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2013 tilldelas den kanadensiska författaren Alice Munro ”den samtida novellkonstens mästare”.

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Press release

Spanish Secretario permanente Nota de prensa 10 de octubre del 2013 El premio Nobel de literatura 2013 Alice Munro El premio Nobel de literatura 2013 ha sido otorgado a la escritora Alice Munro ”la maestra del cuento contemporáneo”.

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