1958
Georges Pire – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
Georges Pire’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1958 (in French) Sire, Dans les innombrables lettres que j’ai reçues depuis le 10 Novembre, combien de correspondants inconnus, de pays divers et parfois bien lointains, se sont plu à souligner le geste profondément humain…
moreBoris Pasternak – Bibliography
Bibliography
Works (large selection) Bliznets v tuchakh. – Moscow : Lirika, 1914 Poverkh bar’erov. – Moscow : Tsentrifuga, 1917 Sestra moia zhizn’. – Moscow : Grzhebin, 1922 Temy i variatsii. – Berlin : Gelikon, 1923 Karusel’. – Leningrad : Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1925 Rasskazy : [ Detstvo Liuvers, Il tratto di Apelle, Pis’ma iz Tuly, Vozdushnye puti].…
moreFrederick Sanger – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Frederick Sanger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I had the good fortune about ten years ago to visit this country and to work for a few months in the Laboratory of Professor at Uppsala, I did not succeed in…
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