Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the French literature is no longer linked geographically to the frontiers of France in Europe. In many respects it reminds one of a garden plant, noble and irreplaceable, which when cultivated outside its territory still retains its distinctive character, although tradition and variation alternately influence it. The…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 19, 1989 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 Camilo José Cela This year’s Nobel Prize for literature goes to the Spanish writer Camilo José Cela. With him is rewarded the leading figure in Spain’s literary renewal during the postwar era. The background of Cela’s experience is the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Knut Ahnlund, of the December 10, 1989 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Camilo José Cela has written upwards of a hundred books, a veritable library in itself, filled with the most astounding contrasts, popular, crudely humorous tales side by side with some…

French Notice biobibliographique Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio est né le 13 avril 1940 à Nice, mais ses deux parents avaient de fortes attaches familiales avec l’île Maurice, ancienne colonie française, conquise par les britanniques en 1810. À l’âge de 8 ans Le Clézio part avec le reste de sa famille habiter au Nigéria, où le…

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J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in 1940 in Nice, France. He is a descendent of a Breton family that emigrated in the 18th century to Mauritius. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Institut d’Études Littéraires in Nice and is a Doctor of Philosophy. Despite his extensive travels, since the age of seven…

A domestication of death: The poetic universe of Wisława Szymborska by Malgorzata Anna Packalén This article was published on 26 February 2004. Strong relativism and openness are well known to be important dimensions in the temporal sphere at the basis of ‘s poetry. The way in which she links the past with the present, the…

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Swedish Presentationstal av författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , den 10 december 2005. Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina damer och herrar, Harold Pinter är det engelska dramats förnyare under 1900-talet. “Pinteresque” är ett adjektiv i Oxford Dictionary. Likt Kafka, Proust…