Nobel Prize

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882 he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers. His literary career began with Departmental Ditties (1886), but subsequently he became chiefly known as a writer of short stories. A prolific writer, he…

German Gao Xingjian wurde am 4. Januar 1940 in Ganzhou (Provinz Jiangxi) in Ostchina geboren und ist jetzt französischer Staatsangehöriger. Er ist Erzähler, Übersetzer, Dramatiker, Regisseur, Kritiker und Künstler. Gao Xingjian wuchs während der Nachwehen der japanischen Invasion auf. Sein Vater war Bankangestellter, seine Mutter Amateurschauspielerin. Sie weckte frühzeitig Gaos Interesse für das Theater und…

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English Biobibliographical Notes Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was born on April 13, 1940, in Nice, but both parents had strong family connections with the former French colony, Mauritius (conquered by the British in 1810). At the age of eight, Le Clézio and his family moved to Nigeria, where the father had been stationed as a…

Ivo Andrić was born in the village of Dolac, near Travnik, in 1892. After spending his youth in his native Bosnia, which was at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Zagreb, Vienna, and Cracow. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War, at…

French Gao Xingjan, né le 4 janvier 1940 à Ganzhou ( la province de Jiangxi ) dans la Chine orientale, à présent citoyen français. Prosateur, traducteur, dramaturge, metteur en scène, critique et artiste. Gao Xingjan grandit dans les répercussions de l’invasion japonaise. Son père était banquier, sa mère, actrice-amateur, éveilla tôt l’intérêt de Gao pour…

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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…