Nobel Prize

Spanish Nota biobibliográfica Herta Müller nació el 17 de agosto de 1953 en el pueblo germanohablante de Nitzkydorf, en Banat, Rumanía. Sus padres pertenecían a la minoría germanófona de Rumanía. Su padre sirvió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en las Waffen-SS. Muchos alemanes de Rumanía fueron deportados a la Unión Soviética en 1945 y la…

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, of an old New England family. He was educated at Harvard and did graduate work in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England, where he was for a time a schoolmaster and a bank clerk, and eventually literary editor…

Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980) born in Paris in 1905, studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1924 to 1929 and became Professor of Philosophy at Le Havre in 1931. With the help of a stipend from the Institut Français he studied in Berlin (1932) the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. After further teaching at…

French Orhan Pamuk est né le 7 juin 1952 à Istanbul dans une famille bourgeoise, aisée et séculière. Son père était ingénieur civil comme l’oncle et le grand-père paternels. C’est le grand-père de Pamuk qui fonda la richesse familiale. Pendant sa jeunesse Pamuk projetait d’être peintre. Après avoir obtenu le diplôme de bachelier de Robert…

Swedish Imre Kertész är född i Budapest den 9 november 1929. Han är av judisk börd. 1944 deporterades han till Auschwitz och därifrån till Buchenwald varifrån han befriades 1945. Då han kommit tillbaka till Ungern arbetade han från 1948 på tidningen Világosság i Budapest men avskedades 1951 då tidningen blev partitrogen. Efter två års militärtjänst…

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Presentation Speech by S. Siwertz, Member of the Very seldom have great statesmen and warriors also been great writers. One thinks of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, and even Napoleon, whose letters to Josephine during the first Italian campaign certainly have passion and splendour. But the man who can most readily be compared with Sir Winston…

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English Biobibliographical Notes Orhan Pamuk was born 7 June 1952 in Istanbul into a prosperous, secular middle-class family. His father was an engineer as were his paternal uncle and grandfather. It was this grandfather who founded the family’s fortune. Growing up, Pamuk was set on becoming a painter. He graduated from Robert College then studied…

English Biobibliographical notes Herta Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in the German-speaking town Nitzkydorf in Banat, Romania. Her parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania. Her father had served in the Waffen SS during World War II. Many German Romanians were deported to the Soviet Union in 1945, including Müller’s mother…