Nobel Prize

Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She grew up in China, where her parents were missionaries, but was educated at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. After her graduation she returned to China and lived there until 1934 with the exception of a year spent at Cornell University, where she took an M.A. in 1926.…

French Imre Kertész est né le 9 novembre 1929 à Budapest, dans une famille juive. 1944 il fut déporté au camp de concentration d’Auschwitz-Birkenau. Il fut libéré à Buchenwald en 1945. Après son retour en Hongrie, il travailla à Budapest pour le quotidien Világosság à partir de 1948, puis il fut licencié en 1951 quand…

Swedish Den på Trinidad födde brittiske författaren V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul föddes 1932 i Chaguanas nära Port of Spain på Trinidad i en familj av ättlingar till invandrare från norra Indien. Farfadern var sockerrörsarbetare, fadern journalist och författare. Vid 18 års ålder begav sig Naipaul till England, där han efter studier vid University College i Oxford…

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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Georgia Brown works on sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature. She is the author of Redefining Elizabethan Literature, and has published articles on Christopher Marlowe, Queen Elizabeth I, Renaissance translation, Spenser, Antony and Cleopatra, disgust as a theme in the drama of John Marston, Renaissance embroidery, attitudes to war in Ancient Greek texts and teaching…

Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Herta Müller är född den 17 augusti 1953 i den tyskspråkiga byn Nitzkydorf i Banat i Rumänien. Hennes föräldrar tillhörde den tyskspråkiga minoriteten i Rumänien. Fadern hade under andra världskriget gjort tjänst i Waffen-SS. Många Rumänientyskar deporterades till Sovjetunionen 1945 och Herta Müllers mor var en av dessa. Hon tillbringade fem år…

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