Nobel Prize

Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in the city of Hibbing. As a teenager, he played in various bands and with time his interest in music deepened, with a particular passion for American folk music and blues. One of his idols was the folk singer Woody Guthrie.…

Excerpt from Voices from Chernobyl Children’s Chorus Alyosha Belskiy, 9; Anya Bogush, 10; Natasha Dvoretskaya, 16; Lena Zhudro, 15; Yura Zhuk, 15; Olya Zvonak, 10; Snezhana Zinevich, 16; Ira Kudryacheva, 14; Ylya Kasko, 11; Vanya Kovarov, 12; Vadim Karsnosolnyshko, 9; Vasya Mikulich, 15; Anton Nashivankin, 14; Marat Tatartsev, 16; Yulia Taraskina, 15; Katya Shevchuk, 15;…

In Sight of the Lake Excerpt from Dear Life: Stories A woman goes to her doctor to have a prescription renewed. But the doctor is not there. It’s her day off. In fact the woman has got the day wrong, she has mixed up Monday with Tuesday. This is the very thing she wanted to…

(pdf, 1.38 MB) Swedish (pdf, 202 kB) Nobelsamtal med Alice Munro Samtalspartner Stefan Åsberg, SVT Översättning Rose-Marie Nielsen [Den engelska avskriften av samtalet har varit utgångspunkt för översättningen till svenska. Arbetet har skett under stor tidsnöd, varför vissa smärre avvikelser i texten kan förekomma.] Jag blev tidigt intresserad av läsning, eftersom man läst en saga…

English At the Nobel Lecture in Literature on 7 December 2011, a programme featuring texts by Tomas Tranströmer was introduced by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. Tomas and Monica Tranströmer, esteemed Academicians, Ladies and Gentlemen: I bid you a warm welcome to the Swedish Academy and this presentation marking the year’s Nobel…

Swedish Vid Nobelföreläsningen i litteratur den 7 december 2011 introducerade Peter Englund, Svenska Akademiens ständige sekreterare, ett program med texter av Tomas Tranströmer. Tomas och Monica Tranströmer, kära Akademiledamöter, mina damer och herrar. Hjärtligt välkomna till Svenska Akademien och detta arrangemang med anledning av årets Nobelpris i litteratur! God poesi är ett mäktigt ting. Det…

The wave of creativity that has swept through Latin American writing since the 1960s has turned the region into an engine for change on a global scale and Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the major figures in this Latin American renaissance. He was born in Peru in 1936 and his life, like his writing,…

Herta Müller has lived through the kind of vicious absurdity that most can only imagine. A member of Romania’s German minority, which was protected when Romania allied itself with Hitler, but was then persecuted under Ceauşescu’s communist dictatorship, she will always be an outsider, someone whose past will never allow them to fit in. Born…

French Extrait d’Onitsha Le Surabaya, un navire de trois cents tonneaux, déjà vieux, de la Holland Africa Line, venait de quitter les eaux sales de l’estuaire de la Gironde et faisait route vers la côte ouest de l’Afrique, et Fintan regardait sa mère comme si c’était pour la première fois. Peut-être qu’il n’avait jamais senti…

Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar Jag vill tacka för äran att vara här, tacka Svenska Akademien, tacka svenska folket och jag vill också tacka skogen. It’s a great pleasure, it’s a great honour to be with you tonight, and I acknowledge this honour which is done to me…