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In one of his more light-hearted books, Isaac Bashevis Singer depicts his childhood in one of the over-populated poor quarters of Warsaw, a Jewish quarter, just before and during the First World War. The book, called In My Father’s Court (1966), is sustained by a redeeming, melancholy sense of humour and a clear-sightedness free of…

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Presentation Speech by Mrs Birgitta Trotzig, Writer, Member of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, How are we to live after the adulteration, demise, and disintegration of the great utopias? – we ask ourselves now, looking toward the year 2000. How are we to live after the…

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German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 13. Oktober 2005 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2005 Harold Pinter Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2005 wird dem englischen Schriftsteller Harold Pinter verliehen „der in seinen Dramen den Abgrund unter dem alltäglichen Geschwätz freilegt und in den geschlossenen Raum der Unterdrückung einbricht“. Die Schwedische Akademie

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Trelleck on 18th May, 1872. His parents were Viscount Amberley and Katherine, daughter of 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley. At the age of three he was left an orphan. His father had wished him to be brought up as an agnostic; to avoid this he was made a…

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) was born in Buczacz, Eastern Galicia. Raised in a mixed cultural atmosphere, in which Yiddish was the language of the home, and Hebrew the language of the Bible and the Talmud which he studied formally until the age of nine, Agnon also acquired a knowledge of German literature from his mother,…