Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1907 The suggestions for names of suitable recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature have been numerous, and there has been no dearth of exceedingly well-qualified candidates for this honourable and coveted distinction. From these candidates, the Swedish Academy has…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the The great work on Western philosophy which Bertrand Russell brought out in 1946, that is, at the age of seventy-four, contains numerous characteristic reflections giving us an idea of how he himself might like us to regard his long and arduous life. In one place, speaking…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Member of the This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to two outstanding Jewish authors – Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs – each of whom represents Israel’s message to our time. Agnon’s home is in Jerusalem, and Miss Sachs has been an immigrant in Sweden since 1940,…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 Gabriel García Márquez With this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature to the Colombian writer, Gabriel García Márquez, the Swedish Academy cannot be said to bring forward an unknown writer. García Márquez achieved unusual international success as a writer with his novel in…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, With this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature to Gabriel García Márquez the Swedish Academy cannot be said to bring forward an unknown writer. García Márquez achieved unusual success as a writer with his…

English Presentation Speech by Writer Per Wästberg, Member of the , Chairman of its Nobel Committee, December 10, 2005. Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Harold Pinter is the renewer…

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Jaroslav Seifert was born on 23 September 1901 into a working-class family living in Zizkov, a suburb of Prague. He attended secondary school and soon began devoting himself to writing poetry and to journalism. He made his debut in 1918; he published his first collection of poems in 192 1. He belonged to the extreme…

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