Nobel Prize

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.…

Swedish Allegro Jag spelar Haydn efter en svart dag och känner en enkel värme i händerna. Tangenterna vill. Milda hammare slår. Klangen är grön, livlig och stilla. Klangen säger att friheten finns och att någon inte ger kejsaren skatt. Jag kör ner händerna i mina haydnfickor och härmar en som ser lugnt på världen. Jag…

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, on 10 December every year – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded to the Nobel Laureates. This year, the award ceremony…

Professor Anders Olsson delivering the presentation speech for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Dan Lepp English Presentation Speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2020. Your Majesties, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen Everything finds new meaning in…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Anders Olsson, ledamot av  ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2020. Eders Majestäter, Ärade pristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, Allt får en ny innebörd i efterhand. I den amerikanska poeten Louise Glücks verk Faithful and Virtuous Night från 2014 finns en dikt mitt i boken som heter ”Afterword”. Den utgör…