Nobel Prize

Patrick White – Existential explorer by Karin Hansson This article was published on 29 August 2001. Nobel Prize When Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the Swedish Academy’s commendation referred to the author’s epic and psychological narrative art as having introduced a new continent into literature. This standpoint may seem…

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Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the The student of François Mauriac’s works will be struck from the very first by the insistence with which Mauriac devotes himself to describing a precise milieu, a corner of land one can point to on a map of France. The action of his novels nearly always…

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French Notice biobliographique Dario Fo, une des personnalités de premier plan de la farce moderne et du théâtre politique, naquit en 1926 dans le village de Sangiano (Varese) en Lombardie, où il fut tôt en contact avec le théâtre populaire et la tradition orale (son grand-père était un fabulatore connu). Après des études d’art et…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

I was born on May 7th, 1867, in the village of Kobielo Wielkie in that part of Poland which was under Russian rule. My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother’s brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but…

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German 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 Titel Poer…