Nobel Prize

Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house. I saw from the beginning how my parents are discussing…

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win. I am going to…

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Kazuo ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on 8th November 1954. The house he lived in for the first five years of his life had been built in the traditional Japanese style, with tatami mats and sliding shoji screens. Early photographs show Ishiguro as a baby, sitting as formally as he was then able, in…

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Olga Tokarczuk received her Nobel Prize in 2019. Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

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https://youtu.be/XhTd9sLl_oo Peter Handke’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. This is the first « toast » in my life. In my old english dictionary « to toast » means: to greet, in distance a beautiful lady… » This is the second time in my life, I address myself to a King and a…

https://youtu.be/YXV85kILiu8 Olga Tokarczuk’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, my fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Allow me to offer my most heartfelt thanks to the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation for this incredible honor. Before making the trip to Stockholm, I did my best to find out…