Nobel Prize

Critical Essay by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the This Polish work of imagination has its starting point in the naturalistic novel, especially in the form which that genre received from Zola in France. Reymont has acknowledged that the idea of his book was evoked by La Terre, not through his admiration…

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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.

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Credits Production TWI: Narrator: Josette Simon Titles and Graphics: Kevin Cooney Editor: Gidon Benari Sound: Stuart Browne Researcher: Alex Gervin Production Manager: Kate Best Executive Producer: Rick Thomas Producer: Linda Daniel Camera: Sveriges Television AB – SVT Copyright Acknowledgements: Rowohlt Verlag Serpent’s Tail Publishing Copyright © Nobel Media AB/TWI 2004

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…

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…