Literature

Press release

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…

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Award ceremony speech

  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…

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Award ceremony speech

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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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1930 This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is a native of a part of America which for a long time has had Swedish contacts. He was born at Sauk Centre, a place of about two or three thousand inhabitants in…

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