Nobel Prize

Transcript from an interview with Roger D. Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, on 6 December 2006. Interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Roger Kornberg, welcome back to Stockholm. Roger Kornberg: Thank you. I gather you know the town quite well having been here…

Transcript from an interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on 12 December 2006. Interviewer is Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist. First of all, welcome to this interview. Muhammed Yunus: Thank you. I’m very honoured to meet you. What did you think when the phone…

Transcript from an interview with Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, on 6 December 2006. Interviewer is Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. My name is Horace Engdahl, I am the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish academy, and here beside me is Mr…

Translated and shortened version of the interview clips with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Literature Patrick Modiano, 6 December 2014. What made you become a writer? Patrick Modiano: I think I became a writer because I didn’t know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. I remember reading James Fenimore Cooper’s…

Interview with Kailash Satyarthi on 12 December 2014, during his visit to the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you a share a memory from the Nobel Days? Kailash Satyarthi: Actually when I was giving my Nobel Lecture, I lost my manuscript, some pages. You remember, ja, so I was just looking here and there…

English translation of the interview with Mo Yan, 6 December 2012. The interviewer is YuSie Rundkvist Chou. The interview was made in Chinese, here transcribed by Svensk Medietext AB. Mr Mo Yan, I’d like to congratulate you to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. First of all, I’d like to ask you… You were born…

Transcript from an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa during his visit to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 23 May 2014. Who has most inspired you as a writer? Mario Vargas Llosa: I had of course the models of great writers and many … very important for me was the case of Flaubert for example.…

German “Die Sprache hat andere Augen” Transcript of the telephone interview with Herta Müller immediately following the announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, 8 October 2009. The interview was recorded minutes after the announcement and conducted in Müller’s native German. The interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. [Herta Müller] Hallo … [Marika Griehsel]…

“This is the best tool to see how molecules are working” Transcript of the telephone interview with Arieh Warshel following the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 9 October 2013. The interviewer is Nobelprize.org’s Adam Smith. [AW] Hello [AS] Oh hello may I speak to Arieh Warshel please? [AW] Speaking. [AS] Hello…

Transcript from an interview with Derek Walcott on 28 April 2005. Interviewer is freelance journalist Simon Stanford. Derek Walcott, welcome to the interview. You were the Nobel Literature Laureate in 1992. Tell us where did it all start? What unique combination of circumstances gave Derek Walcott…