Nobel Prize

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1985 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 Claude Simon Claude Simon began to be noticed in earnest at the end of the 1950s in connection with the great interest in the so-called “new novel” in France. The term had been introduced by the critic Roland Barthes and…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1986 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 Wole Soyinka This year’s Nobel Prize in literature goes to an African writer, Wole Soyinka from Nigeria. Now in his early fifties, he has a large and richly varied literary production behind him and is in his prime as an…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1987 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 Joseph Brodsky This year’s Nobel Prize winner in Literature was born in Leningrad and lives in New York. Aged only 47 he is one of the youngest ever to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. A sign of…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 13, 1988 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Through the Swedish Academy’s decision this year the Nobel Prize in Literature has for the first time been awarded to an Egyptian. Naguib Mahfouz was born and lives in Cairo. He is also the first literary Nobel…

  Presentation Speech by Doctor Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the . Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When , compatriot of this year’s Nobel prizewinner in literature, came here in 1963 to receive the same award, he presented at the airport a bunch of hyacinths each to the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania and grew up in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt in earnest.…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Claude Simon began to be noticed in earnest at the end of the 1950s in connection with the great interest in the so-called “new novel” in France. The new writers were against the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Wole Soyinka, born in Nigeria in 1934, writes in English and is chiefly recognized as a dramatist. His many-sided and vital literary works also include some important collections of poems and novels, an interesting…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, of the , December 10, 1987 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A characteristic feature of the Nobel prizewinner Joseph Brodsky is a magnificent joy of discovery. He sees connections, words them pithily, sees new connections. Not seldom they are contradictory…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On the Nobel Day, 10th December, 1911, received that year’s Nobel Prize in Literature from the hands of King Gustavus V here in Stockholm. On the following day Naguib Mahfouz was born in…