Nobel Prize

Naipaul is Truly a Nobel Man in a Free State by David Pryce-Jones The Nobel Prize for literature has gone to someone who deserves it. Like the great masters of the past, V.S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it…

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 Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the In the impressive succession of Nobel Prize winners in Literature, T.S. Eliot marks a departure from the type of writer that has most frequently gained that distinction. The majority have been representatives of a literature which seeks its natural contacts in the public consciousness, and which,…

Address by Anders Österling, Member of the This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been granted by the Swedish Academy to the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age. It…

Presentation Speech by Torgny Lindgren of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Writer Torgny Lindgren delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The realities that are the subject of Imre Kertész’s literary…

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Artist: John Stenborg Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

Swedish Orhan Pamuk är född den 7 juni 1952 i Istanbul i en välbärgad, sekulariserad medelklassfamilj. Hans far var civilingenjör liksom hans farbror och farfar. Det var Pamuks farfar som lade grunden till familjens förmögenhet. Under sin uppväxt var Pamuk inriktad på att bli målare. Han tog studentexamen vid Robert College och studerade därefter arkitektur…