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Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1929. From left: Owen Willans Richardson, physics laureate 1928; Louis de Broglie, physics laureate 1929; Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, chemistry laureates 1929; Sir Frederick Hopkins, medicine laureate 1929 and Thomas Mann, literature laureate 1929.

Pär Lagerkvist after receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf at the award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 1951. Pär Lagerkvist ca 1951.

Literature laureates Nelly Sachs and Samuel Agnon preparing for the prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1966.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää in his home receives the news that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1939.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson receiving his Nobel Prize from the hands of King Oscar II, 10 December 1903. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and his wife Karoline in the livingroom at Aulestad, Gausdal, Norway, 1908.

Nobel Prize Conversations  “I don’t write about heroes, I write about small people” Abdulrazak Gurnah’s books often touch on the fate of the refugee and effects of colonialism. In this conversation, conudcted in June 2022, he speaks about his interest in how people cope with traumas or problems in their lives – and are…

Nobel Prize Conversations ”In a number of my works, I am just narrating a tale for whoever is interested” In this podcast episode with literature laureate Wole Soyinka, conducted in November 2021, he talks about his photographic memory, his creative process and the question of who he writes literature for. His home of Nigeria figures…

Umm Kulthoum Mahfouz and Fatma Naguib Mahfouz receiving the Nobel Prize in literature 1988 on behalf of their father Naguib Mahfouz at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 1988. Mr. Mohamed Salmawy delivering the Nobel Lecture on behalf of literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz at the Swedish Academy, 8 December 1988.…