Nobel Prize

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…

  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…

French Notice biobibliographique Doris Lessing est née Doris May Taylor le 22 octobre 1919 de parents britanniques à Kermanchah en Perse, (aujourd’hui Iran). Son père Alfred Cook Taylor, capitaine de l’armée britannique durant la première guerre mondiale, était employé de banque. Sa mère Emily Maude Taylor avait été infirmière. En 1925 la famille part s’installer…

Born in Cairo in 1911, Naguib Mahfouz began writing when he was seventeen. His first novel was published in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. One novel was republished in 1953, however, and the appearance of the Cairo Triology, Bayn al…

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Presentation Speech by Hjalmar Gullberg, Member of the A long life consecrated to poetry and to beauty has been honoured this year with the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is an old gardener, this Juan Ramón, who has dedicated half a century to the creation of a new rose, a white mystical rose, which will…

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 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…

Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Doris Lessing är född den 22 oktober 1919 av brittiska föräldrar i Kermanshah i Persien (nuvarande Iran) som Doris May Taylor. Hennes far Alfred Cook Taylor, kapten i den brittiska armén under första världskriget, var banktjänsteman. Modern Emily Maude Taylor hade varit sjuksköterska. 1925 flyttade familjen till en farm i dåvarande Sydrhodesia…

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