Nobel Prize

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Anders Olsson, ledamot av , 10 december 2009. Professor Anders Olsson presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Det finns litteratur som först långsamt, steg för steg, uppenbarar sina djupa kvaliteter. Och så finns det litteratur som omedelbart fångar…

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Luigi Pirandello(1867-1936) was born in Girgenti, Sicily. He studied philology at Rome and at Bonn and wrote a dissertation on the dialect of his native town (1891). From 1897 to 1922 he was professor of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di Magistere Femminile at Rome. Pirandello’s work is impressive by its sheer volume.…

Vicente Aleixandre was born in Sevilla (Spain) on April 26, 1898. He spent his childhood in Malaga and he has lived in Madrid since 1909. Studied law at the University of Madrid and at the Madrid School of Economics. Beginning in 1925 he has completely devoted himself to literature. His first book of poems, Ambit,…

Works in Italian Poetry Mal giocondo, 1889 Pasqua di Gea, 1891 Elegie renane, 1895 La Zampogna, 1901 Fuor di chiave, 1912   Short fiction Amori senza amore, 1894 Quand’ero matto, 1902 Beffe della morte e della vita. – 2 vol. – 1902-1903 Bianche e nere, 1904 Erma bifronte, 1906 La vita nuda, 1910 Terzetti, 1912…

German Imre Kertész wurde am 9. November 1929 in Budapest geboren. Er ist jüdischer Herkunft. 1944 wurde er nach Auschwitz und von dort nach Buchenwald verschleppt, wo er 1945 befreit wurde. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Ungarn arbeitete er ab 1948 an der Zeitung Világosság in Budapest, wurde aber 1951 entlassen, als die Zeitung parteitreu wurde.…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the on December 10, 1904 One sometimes hears it said that the Nobel Prizes should be awarded to authors still in the prime of life and consequently at the height of their development, in order to shelter them from material difficulties and assure them a wholly…