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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 C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1906 From the unusually large number of poets and authors proposed for the Nobel Prize this year, the Swedish Academy has chosen a great Italian poet who for a long time has attracted the attention both of the Academy and of…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Member of the This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has, as you all know, been awarded to the Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov, born in 1905, and now in his sixty-first year. Sholokhov’s childhood was spent in the country of the Don Cossacks; and the strong ties that have always bound…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 Elias Canetti Born in 1905, in the port of Rustschuk on the lower Danube, Elias Canetti belongs to a Sephardic family whose members, in 1492, were driven out of the town of Canete, situated between Cuenca and Valencia. For several hundred years,…

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 9, 1997 The Nobel Prize for Literature 1997 Dario Fo “who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden” Dario Fo, the dramatist and actor, was born at Lago Maggiore, and is 71. His education included studies…

  Presentation Speech by Dr. Johannes Edfelt, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The exiled and cosmopolitan author Canetti has one native land, and that is the German language. He has never abandoned it, and he has often avowed his love of the highest manifestations of…