Literature

Press release

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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Article

Harry Martinson: Catching the dewdrop, reflecting the cosmos by Ulf Larsson Introduction In October 1974 it was announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for that year had been awarded to and . In the pages of several Swedish newspapers, the announcement provoked indignant reactions. The Swedish Academy had awarded the Prize to two of…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the This year’s Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to a writer of German origin who has had wide critical acclaim and who has created his work regardless of public favour. The sixty-nine-year-old Hermann Hesse can look back on a considerable achievement consisting of novels, short…

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Biographical

I was born at Kislovodsk on 11th December, 1918. My father had studied philological subjects at Moscow University, but did not complete his studies, as he enlisted as a volunteer when war broke out in 1914. He became an artillery officer on the German front, fought throughout the war and died in the summer of…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Swedish © Tomas Tranströmer, Albert Bonniers Förlag. För publicering i tidskrifter eller böcker krävs upphovsmannens och bokförlagets medgivande. Kontakt tas direkt med Albert Bonniers förlag eller gällande översättningen med Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 7 december 2011 Ett program med texter av Tomas Tranströmer Program – Börssalen den 7 december 2011 Introduktion Ständige sekreteraren Minnena ser mig…

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