Nobel Prize

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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Leonie Nelly Sachs, born in Berlin on December 10, 1891. As refugee, arrived in Sweden with my mother on May 16, 1940. Since then living in Stockholm and active as writer and translator. Biographical NoteNelly Sachs (1891-1970), daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, grew up in a fashionable area of Berlin. She studied music and dancing…

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university…

Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers