Nobel Prize

Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954), the son of a well-known pediatrician, was born in Madrid. He studied law, but when his father died and left him with a comfortable income, he abandoned his studies and travelled widely in France, England, and Russia. On his return to Spain he edited, and contributed to, several newspapers and journals. He…

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Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1920 The Swedish Academy, in accordance with the statutes of the Nobel Founcation, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1919, which was not awarded last year, to the Swiss poet Carl Spitteler for his epic, Olympischer Frühling…

English Presentation Speech by Kjell Espmark, Member of the , Member of its Nobel Committee, 10 December 2011. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, esteemed Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tomas Tranströmer is one of the very few Swedish writers with an influence on world literature. He has been translated into some sixty languages, and has been…

Portuguese Notas biobibliográficas José Saramago nasceu em 1922, numa família de camponeses, na pequena aldeia de Azinhaga (Ribatejo), a norte de Lisboa. Devido a dificuldades económicas abandonou os estudos secundários e tirou um curso de serralheiro mecânico. Experimentou várias profissões no funcionalismo público, trabalhou doze anos numa editora e depois em jornais, nomeadamente como director-adjunto…

Spanish Secretario permanente Nota de prensa 6 de octubre del 2011 El premio Nobel de literatura 2011 Tomas Tranströmer El premio Nobel de literatura 2011 ha sido otorgado al poeta sueco Tomas Tranströmer ”por ofrecernos, en imágenes densas y diáfanas, una nueva vía de acceso a lo real”.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family’s summer house at Connaught. The young Yeats was very much part of the fin de siècle…

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Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1920 In accordance with the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Swedish Academy has awarded the literary Prize for 1920 to the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun for his work, Markens Grøde (1917) [Growth of the Soil]. It would be…