Nobel Prize

French Notice biobibliographique L’écrivain britannique, né en Trinidad, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul est né en 1932 à Chaguanas, près de Port of Spain à Trinidad, dans une famille de descendants d’immigrants originaires du nord de l’Inde. Son grand-père était coupeur de canne, son père journaliste et écrivain. À l’âge de 18 ans, Naipaul se rend en…

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 8. Oktober 2009 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2009 Herta Müller Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2009 wird der deutschen Schriftstellerin Herta Müller verliehen „die mittels Verdichtung der Poesie und Sachlichkeit der Prosa Landschaften der Heimatlosigkeit zeichnet“.

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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…

Turkish Orhan Pamuk, 7 Haziran 1952’de İstanbul’da laik, varlıklı orta sınıf bir ailenin çocuğu olarak doğdu. Babası da, dedesi ve amcası gibi yüksek mühendisti. Aile servetinin temelini dedesi atmıştı. Pamuk, yetişkinlik çağlarında ressam olmak istiyordu. Lise diplomasını Robert Koleji’nden aldı ve daha sonra İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi’nde mimarlık, İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde gazetecilik okudu. 1985 – 1988 arası…

Hungarian Kertész Imre 1929, november 9-én született Budapesten. Zsidó származású. 1944-ben Auschwitzba deportálták, majd onnan Buchenwaldba, ahonnan 1945-ben kiszabadult. Miután Magyarországra visszatért, 1948-tól a budapesti Világosság című lapnak dolgozott, de 1951-ben, mikor a lap párthű lett, felmondtak neki. Ezután két évig katona volt, s azóta független íróként él és alkot mint műfordító. Német nyelvű szerzőket…

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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…