Nobel Prize

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…

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. Read the speeches

Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

  Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Anders Olsson, ledamot av ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2019. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Samtidens litteratur blommar som aldrig förr vid främmande stränder. En sådan plats är Ingenmansbukten, Peter Handkes namn på den ort sydväst om Paris där han sedan trettio år har…