Literature
Biobibliographical notes
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English Biobibliographical notes Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, Peru to Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta. After his parents divorced, he grew up with his mother and grandfather in the city of Cochabamba in Bolivia. The family moved to Piura, Peru in 1946 where his grandfather held an…
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Award ceremony speech
English Presentationstal av Professor Horace Engdahl, ständige sekreterare, ledamot av Svenska Akademien, Professor Horace Engdahl presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Orhan Pamuk beskriver i sin bok om hemstaden Istanbul hur han som ung hänfört studerade ett praktverk med gravyrer från tidigt…
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Press release
Spanish Secretario permanente Nota de prensa 8 de octubre del 2009 El premio Nobel de literatura 2009 Herta Müller El premio Nobel de literatura 2009 ha sido otorgado a la escritora alemana Herta Müller ”que con la concentración de la poesía y la objetividad de la prosa dibuja los paisajes del desamparo”.
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, a prominent representative of the modern literature of Latin America, in which such interesting developments are now taking place. Born in 1899 in the capital of Guatemala, Asturias became…
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