Nobel Prize

French Notice Biobibliographique José Saramago, originaire d’une famille d’agriculteurs, naquit en 1922 dans le petit village d’Azinhaga (Ribatejo), au nord de Lisbonne. Pour des raisons financières, il abandonna le lycée afin de suivre une formation de mécanicien. Il s’essaya à divers métiers dans l’administration publique, travailla douze ans dans des maisons d’édition puis dans des…

Swedish Tomas Tranströmer är född den 15 april 1931 i Stockholm. Han är son till folkskolläraren Helmy och redaktören Gösta Tranströmer. Efter studentexamen 1950 från Södra Latins gymnasium påbörjade han studier i litteraturhistoria med poetik, religionshistoria samt psykologi vid Stockholms högskola – ämnen som ingick i hans filosofie kandidatexamen 1956. Efter att han avslutat sina…

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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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