Literature
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Fredrik Böök, Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, on December 10, 1929 If one asks which innovation the nineteenth century made in the field of literature, which new form it created in addition to the old forms of epic, drama, and lyric, whose roofs are in Greece, the answer must be:…
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Biobibliographical notes
Bio-bibliography
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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