Literature
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, Permanent Secretary of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Art is on the side of the oppressed, Nadine Gordimer says in one of her essays, urging us to think before we dismiss this heretical idea about the freedom of art.…
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Harry Martinson – Biographical
Biographical
Harry Martinson was born at Jämshög in 1904. He was left an orphan at an early age, and after a chequered childhood, in which the children’s homes and institutions were as numerous as the escapes, he went to sea at the age of sixteen, spending six years of his life on board various ships and…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Writer Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, To write is to awaken counter-voices within…
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Bio-bibliography
Swedish Biobibliografisk notis José Saramago är född 1922 i en lantbrukarfamilj i den lilla byn Azinhaga (Ribatejo), norr om Lissabon. Av ekonomiska skäl gav han upp sina gymnasiestudier och utbildade sig till maskintekniker. Han prövade på olika yrken i offentlig förvaltning, arbetade tolv år på förlag och därefter på tidningar, bl.a. som biträdande chefredaktör på…
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German Tomas Tranströmer wurde am 15. April 1931 als Sohn der Volksschullehrerin Helmy und des Redakteurs Gösta Tranströmer in Stockholm geboren. Nach dem 1950 am Stockholmer Gymnasium Södra Latin abgelegten Abitur widmete er sich dem Studium von Literaturgeschichte und Poetik, Religionsgeschichte und Psychologie an der Hochschule Stockholm – sämtlich Fächer, die in den 1956 erworbenen…
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