Nobel Prize

Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Gao Xingjian, född 4 januari 1940 i Ganzhou (Jiangxiprovinsen) i östra Kina, numera fransk medborgare. Prosaist, översättare, dramatiker, regissör, kritiker och konstnär. Gao växte upp i efterdyningarna av den japanska invasionen, fadern var bankman, modern amatörskådespelerska, hon väckte tidigt Gaos intresse för teater och skriverier. Han fick sin grundutbildning i Folkrepublikens skolor…

more

more

Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) came from an old and well-to-do family of landowners that had settled in Provence in the sixteenth century. He was deeply influenced by his early years in the leisurely and patriarchal manor of his father. Mistral read law, but after taking his degree devoted himself entirely to writing poetry in Provençal, the…

German Orhan Pamuk wurde am 7. Juni 1952 in Istanbul in einer wohlhabenden, säkularisierten Familie der Mittelklasse geboren. Sein Vater war wie Onkel und Großvater väterlicherseits Diplom-Ingenieur. Der Großvater hatte den Grund für das Familienvermögen gelegt. Während seiner Jugend wollte Pamuk Maler werden. Er machte sein Abitur am Robert College und studierte danach an Istanbuls…

more

more

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 When Vicente Aleixandre published his first volume of verse in 1928, Ambito, he was already closely associated personally with the greatly gifted Spanish poets who have given this epoch in Spanish literature the name, “The Second Golden Age”. In its conception of…

English Biobibliographical Notes The British writer, born in Trinidad, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul was born in 1932 in Chaguanas, close to the Port of Spain on Trinidad, in a family descended from immigrants from the north of India. His grandfather worked in a sugar cane plantation and his father was a journalist and writer. At the…

more