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Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974), son of station master Anders Johan Lagerkvist and Johanna Blad, was born in the south of Sweden. He decided early that he was going to be a writer and, after a year at the University of Uppsala, he left for Paris (1913), where he came under the influence of expressionism, especially in…

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Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1936 Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic production has been of a sombre character from the very first, and for him life as a whole quite early came to signify tragedy. This has been attributed to the bitter experiences of his youth, more especially to…

English Bioibliographical notes John Maxwell Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town in South Africa. His background is both German and English. His parents sent him to an English school and he grew up using English as his first language. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to England where he worked initially…

English Biobibliographical notes Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm on 15 April 1931. His mother Helmy was a schoolteacher and his father Gösta Tranströmer a journalist. After graduating in 1950 from Södra Latin grammar school he studied literature history and poetics, the history of religion, and psychology at Stockholm University – subjects he took for…

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…