Nobel Prize

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 6. Oktober 2011 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2011 Tomas Tranströmer Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2011 wird dem schwedischen Poeten Tomas Tranströmer verliehen „weil er uns in komprimierten, erhellenden Bildern neue Wege zum Wirklichen weist“.

Born in 1900 at Svartbjörnsbyn near Boden in the north of Sweden. Parents, Olof Petter J., stonecutter from Värmland, and Cevia Gustafsdotter from Blekinge. There were six children in the family, of whom E.J. was the next youngest. His father fell ill with silicosis about 1904, and E.J. was taken care of by his childless…

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Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Salvatore Quasimodo, the Italian poet who has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a Sicilian by birth. He was born near Syracuse, to be more exact, in the little town of Modica some distance from the coast. It is not difficult to imagine…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 3, 1991 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 Nadine Gordimer “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity” The Swedish Academy has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1991 to…

  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 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…