Literature
Tomas Tranströmer – Nobelföreläsning
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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Award ceremony speech
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…
moreAleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Biographical
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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Salvatore Quasimodo – Biographical
Biographical
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was born of Sicilian parents in Modica, near Syracuse. Desiring to become an engineer, he attended technical schools in Palermo and later enrolled at the Politecnico in Rome. In addition, he studied Latin and Greek at the University there. However, for economic reasons he was unable to complete his studies. He obtained…
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