Nobel Prize

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…

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 11. Oktober 2007 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2007 Doris Lessing Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2007 wird der englischen Schriftstellerin Doris Lessing verliehen „der Epikerin weiblicher Erfahrung, die sich mit Skepsis, Leidenschaft und visionärer Kraft eine zersplitterte Zivilisation zur Prüfung vorgenommen hat“. Die Schwedische Akademie

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The following account of the work of Karl Gjellerup is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Biographical-Critical Essay Karl Gjellerup was born in 1857 and died on October 13, 1919. Like Henrik Pontoppidan, he came from a family of ministers. He chose a career in the clergy although he felt no special calling for it; rather…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 11 October 2007 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 Doris Lessing The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007 is awarded to the English writer Doris Lessing “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”. The Swedish Academy

German Biobibliographische Notiz Doris Lessing wurde am 22. Oktober 1919 von englischen Eltern in Kermanshah im damaligen Persien, dem heutigen Iran, als Doris May Taylor geboren. Ihr Vater, Alfred Cook Taylor, war Bankangestellter und während des Ersten Weltkriegs Hauptmann der britischen Armee. Ihre Mutter, Emily Maude Taylor, war Krankenschwester. 1925 zog die Familie in der…

I was born on the 20th of January, 1873, in a village in North Jutland, the second son of the district veterinary surgeon, H. Jensen, a descendant on both sides of farmers and craftsmen. In 1893, at the age of twenty, I graduated from the Cathedral School of Viborg, and subsequently studied medicine for three…

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