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We spoke to Ellen Mattson, who helps to decide the Nobel Prize in Literature, about how the prize process works. Discover more by reading our interview with her below. Can you tell us who you are? My name is Ellen Mattson. I’m a writer. A novelist. I’m a member of the Swedish Academy and also…

Can you pair the correct book title with the Nobel Prize awarded author? Drag the book title to the empty square under the laureate to pair them, and press check to see your result. Don’t recognise the laureates? Keep scrolling down for some extra help below the game. Want to try another game?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/V0OVAOj86Ng Watch a video clip of the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Peter Handke, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/oi_bNlyuHuk Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

Iwas born April 22, 1943 in New York City, where my parents were then living. I was their second child, but the first to survive. Three years later, after my sister was born, we moved to Woodmere, Long Island, a prosperous Jewish suburb on the south shore, known, like Great Neck on the north shore,…

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Transcript from an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa during Nobel Week in Stockholm, December 2010. Interviewer is Camilla Lundberg, Head of the Music Department of Sveriges Television AB. Mr Vargas Llosa, welcome to Stockholm and to the Stockholm Concert Hall. You have been there before I understand. Mario Vargas Llosa: I have been there once,…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rRBCGQf9uXo Watch a video clip of the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Louise Glück, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during a ceremonial presentation in her garden in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on 6 December 2020.

I’d like to write this autobiographical sketch in a concise, chronological way, based on the reliable passage of time and its usual markers – the years. Then I would see my life as a linear process, gradually accumulating knowledge and experience, even leading towards a goal of some kind. Or at least aiming for one.…