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Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1913 In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Anglo-Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, the Academy has found itself in the happy position of being able to accord this recognition to an author who, in conformity with the express…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature made his debut in 1949. A selective bibliography from January 1972 on works by, and about, Heinrich Böll lists some forty volumes from his own hand, disregarding reprints and new editions. Last in…

The following account of the work of Frans Eemil Sillanpää is by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the Frans Eemil Sillanpää took the motifs for his novels and novellas, which are almost exclusively about his native land (a small region of Finnish peasants), from the scanty, limited circumstances in which he grew up. From the…

Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Dario Fo, en av den moderna farsens och politiska teaterns förgrundsgestalter, föddes 1926 i byn Sangiano (Varese) i Lombardiet, där han tidigt kom i kontakt med folklig teater och berättartradition (farfadern känd fabulatore). Efter konst- och arkitekturstudier i Milano medarbetade Fo vid radion med en serie monologer Poer nano (“Stackars liten”), debuterade…

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I come from an old and noble house that has given to Russia a good many illustrious persons in politics as well as in the arts, among whom two poets of the early nineteenth century stand out in particular: Anna Búnina and Vasíly Zhukóvsky, one of the great names in Russian literature, the son of…