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Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), the greatest classical historian of the nineteenth century, was born in Garding, Schleswig, the son of a Protestant minister. He read law and classics at Kiel from 1838-43, and after a few years in France and Italy and a short career in journalism, he became a professor of law at the University…

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent’s office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre…

A single, homeless, circling satellite: Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Prize laureate in literature by Jöran Mjöberg This article was published on 26 June 2001. Background and youth Black and white ancestry Derek Walcott was born in 1930 on St. Lucia, an island then belonging to the British Empire, but which became independent in 1979. St.…

Announcement by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the Soviet-Russian writer Boris Pasternak for his notable achievement in both contemporary poetry and the field of the great Russian narrative tradition. As is well…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 11, 1990 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 Octavio Paz “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity” This year the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Mexican writer, poet and essayist Octavio Paz, honouring a writer of Spanish with a…

Presentation Speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, He who attempts to seize in a single grasp the bountiful and very varied authorship of Heinrich Böll finds himself holding an abstraction. Through these writings – begun twenty years ago and culminating in…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, for the second time in succession, to a writer from the Spanish-speaking world, it is a reminder of the exceptional literary vitality and richness of…

Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Elfriede Jelinek är född den 20 oktober 1946 i staden Mürzzuschlag i det österrikiska landskapet Steiermark. Fadern, med tjeckisk-judiskt ursprung, var kemist och under andra världskriget verksam som forskare i krigsviktig industri och undgick därigenom förföljelse. Modern kom från en välbärgad familj i Wien, där Elfriede Jelinek växte upp och gick i…

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