Nobel Prize

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…

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…

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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I was born in Calw in the Black Forest on July 2, 1877. My father, a Baltic German, came from Estonia; my mother was the daughter of a Swabian and a French Swiss. My father’s father was a doctor, my mother’s father a missionary and Indologist. My father, too, had been a missionary in India…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1923 Very early, in the first bloom of youth, William Butler Yeats emerged as a poet with an indisputable right to the name; his autobiography shows that the inner promptings of the poet determined his relations to the world…

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 6 octobre 2011 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2011 Tomas Tranströmer Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2011 est attribué au poète suédois Tomas Tranströmer «car par des images denses, limpides, il nous donne un nouvel accès au réel».

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