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Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), the most outstanding and prolific Polish writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, was born in Wola Okrzejska, in the Russian part of Poland. His father’s family was actively engaged in the revolutionary struggles for Polish independence, which accounts for the strong patriotic element in Sienkiewicz’ work. Historical scholarship on…

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, was the son of talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy’s works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Pasternak’s education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow. Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up…

Works in German Liederbuch dreier Freunde / Theodor Mommsen, Theodor Storm, Tycho Mommsen. – Kiel, 1843 Oskische Studien. – Berlin : Nicolai, 1845-1846. – 2 vol. Die Grundrechte des deutschen Volkes, mit Belehrungen und Erläuterungen. – Leipzig : Wigand, 1849. – Rev. ed., Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1969 Die unteritalischen Dialekte. – Leipzig : Wigand, 1850…

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Presentation Speech by Mr. Östen Sjöstrand, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Irish poet Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. The thatched farmhouse he grew up in was called Mossbawn – a name that has become mythical in Heaney’s poetry.…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Horace Engdahl of the , December 10, 2004. Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What first perplexes when reading Elfriede Jelinek is the strange, mixed voice that speaks…

Italian Nota bio-bibliografica Dario Fo, una delle figure di primo piano della farsa e del teatro politico moderni, è nato in un paese della Lombardia, Sangiano (Varese), dove è venuto presto a contatto con il teatro popolare e la tradizione orale (il nonno era un conosciuto fabulatore). Dopo aver studiato arte e architettura a Milano,…

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