Nobel Prize

  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…

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Descendant of an old family of Lesbos, he was born in Heraclion (Candia) on the island of Crete, November 2, 1911. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the Athens University. His first appearance as a poet in…

Joseph Brodsky: A Virgilian Hero, Doomed Never to Return Home by Bengt Jangfeldt This article was published on 12 December 2003. “All my poems are more or less about the same thing – about Time. About what time does to Man.” – Joseph Brodsky Rebel Poet It is impossible to speak about Russian literature without…

2 January, 2013 All information concerning the nominations and selections of the Nobel Laureates is kept secret for 50 years. Of the 66 individuals suggested for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature 15 were new candidates. The Nobel Committee for Literature had American writer John Steinbeck, the English poet Robert Graves and French dramatist Jean…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania, in 1911, to a family with a background of ancient lineage and in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt…

  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.…

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Czesław Miłosz was born June 30, 1911 in Seteiniai, Lithuania, as a son of Aleksander Miłosz, a civil engineer, and Weronika, née Kunat. He made his high-school and university studies in Wilno, then belonging to Poland. A co-founder of a literary group “Zagary”, he made his literary début in 1930, published in the 1930s two…