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Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded this year to the Yugoslav writer, Ivo Andric, who has been acknowledged in his own country as a novelist of unusual stature, and who in recent years has found an increasingly wide audience as more and more of…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 7, 1993 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Toni Morrison “who, in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” “My work requires me to think about how free I can be as an African-American woman writer in…

Presentation Speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Saul Bellow published his first book, the time had come for a change of climate and generation in American narrative art. The so-called hard-boiled style, with its virile air and choppy prose, had…

  Speech by Professor Sture Allén, Permanent Secretary of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel Prize awarded by the Swedish Academy is, as we know, a literary prize. This year it has been granted to Toni Morrison, making her the ninetieth Nobel Laureate in Literature.…

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German Biobibliographische Notiz Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wurde am 13. April 1940 in Nizza geboren, aber seine beiden Eltern hatten starke familiäre Bande mit der einst französischen Kolonie Mauritius, 1810 von den Briten erobert. Im Alter von acht Jahren zog Le Clézio zusammen mit der übrigen Familie nach Nigeria, wo der Vater während des Zweiten…

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