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Giorgos Seferis was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1900. He attended school in Smyrna and finished his studies at the Gymnasium in Athens. When his family moved to Paris in 1918, Seferis studied law at the University of Paris and became interested in literature. He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to…

French Orhan Pamuk est né le 7 juin 1952 à Istanbul dans une famille bourgeoise, aisée et séculière. Son père était ingénieur civil comme l’oncle et le grand-père paternels. C’est le grand-père de Pamuk qui fonda la richesse familiale. Pendant sa jeunesse Pamuk projetait d’être peintre. Après avoir obtenu le diplôme de bachelier de Robert…

Swedish Imre Kertész är född i Budapest den 9 november 1929. Han är av judisk börd. 1944 deporterades han till Auschwitz och därifrån till Buchenwald varifrån han befriades 1945. Då han kommit tillbaka till Ungern arbetade han från 1948 på tidningen Világosság i Budapest men avskedades 1951 då tidningen blev partitrogen. Efter två års militärtjänst…

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Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Member of the Nobel Committee of the on December 10, 1931 If an interested foreigner were to ask one of Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s countrymen what we admire most in this poet and on what qualities his national greatness depends, it would at first seem easy to give an answer. People…

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release September 30, 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature 1999 Günter Grass “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history” When Günter Grass published “The Tin Drum” in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral…

Presentation Speech by Dr. Horace Engdahl of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Dr. Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Photo: Hans Mehlin, Nobelprize.org Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, These days, we often hear talk of…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 8 October 2009 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 Herta Müller The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”.

English Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg, Writer, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2010. Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, esteemed Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mario Vargas Llosa’s writing…