Nobel Prize

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 7 October 2004 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 Elfriede Jelinek The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 is awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 11 October 2001 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 V. S. Naipaul The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2001 is awarded to the British writer, born in Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of…

The following account of the work of Romain Rolland is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, in the district of Nièvre. He studied literature, music, and philosophy, and in 1895 he published two doctoral theses: Les Origines du théâtre lyrique moderne, an erudite and penetrating work which was…

Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life by Sture Packalén This article was published on 16 June 2005. Elfriede Jelinek has, for more than twenty years, constantly challenged her contemporaries with texts which are feminist and deeply critical of society and, moreover, which are perceived to be obscene, irritating and full of biting derision.…

by Sture Packalén* This article was published on 30 November 2005. Record number of prizes Within a space of ten years at the beginning of the twentieth century, four writers in German were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: (1902), (1908), (1910) and (1912). This is a record that has yet to be surpassed by…

Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature by Professor Sture AllénThe Swedish Academy, Sweden This article was published on 23 July 1997. One of the many subjects treated vituperatively by August Strindberg in his “Addresses to the Swedish Nation”, 1910, was the choice in 1901 of the first Nobel Laureate in literature, : “Moreover, the…

English Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg, Writer, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2007. Writer Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Doris Lessing…

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