Nobel Prize

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 13 October 2005 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 Harold Pinter The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2005 is awarded to the English writer Harold Pinter “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”. The Swedish Academy

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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…

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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…

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…

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…