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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…
moreT.S. Eliot – Biographical
Biographical
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…
moreJean-Paul Sartre – Biographical
Biographical
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…
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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…
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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…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
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…
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Press release
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…
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Award ceremony speech
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…
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German Biobibliographischer Hinweis Dario Fo, eine der Portalfiguren der modernen Farce und des politischen Theaters, wurde 1926 im Dorf Saniano in der Lombardei geboren, wo er frühzeitig mit Volkstheater und Erzähltradition (sein Großvater war ein bekannter Fabulatore) in Verbindung geriet. Nach Kunst- und Architekturstudien in Mailand arbeitete Fo mit einer Reihe von Monologen unter dem…
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