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Broadcast Lecture by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Among Johannes V. Jensen’s prose works Den lange rejse (1908-22) [The Long Journey] stands foremost in popular estimation. The theme of this immense epic is man’s development from the soulless and inarticulate herd-life when more than any other creature he was a prey…

English Biobibliographical Notes Doris Lessing was born on 22 October 1919 to British parents in Kermanshah in what was then known as Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor. Her father, Alfred Cook Taylor, formerly a captain in the British army during the First World War, was a bank official. Her mother, Emily Maude Taylor,…

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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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Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1922 Jacinto Benavente has devoted his imaginative gifts mainly to the theatre, and it seems as if he has systematically guided the course of his development in this direction through many varieties of experience. But with this imaginative artist,…