Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1920 In accordance with the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Swedish Academy has awarded the literary Prize for 1920 to the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun for his work, Markens Grøde (1917) [Growth of the Soil]. It would be…

Presentation Speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Eyvind Johnson’s education – that is, the education provided by society at that time – ended when he was thirteen and was imparted to him at a little village school north of the Arctic…

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French Notice biobibliographique John Maxwell Coetzee est né en 1940 au Cap en Afrique du Sud. Il est d’ascendance à la fois allemande et anglaise. Ses parents l’envoyèrent dans une école anglaise et il grandit avec l’anglais comme première langue. Il élut domicile en Angleterre au début des années 60 où il travailla d’abord comme…

German Biobibliografische Notiz José Saramago wurde 1922 in einer Bauernfamilie in dem kleinen Dorf Azinhaga (Ribatejo) nördlich von Lissabon geboren. Aus finanziellen Gründen mußte er den Besuch des Gymnasiums beenden und bildete sich als Maschinentechniker aus. Er versuchte sich in verschiedenen Berufen im Bereich der öffentlichen Verwaltung, arbeitete zwölf Jahre in Verlagen und danach an…

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…