Nobel Prize

Mr. John Alexander MacAulay delivered the Acceptance Speech in the name of the League of Red Cross Societies in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo on December 10, 1963, Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is a very important day in the history of the League of Red Cross…

Mr. Léopold Boissier delivered the Acceptance Speech in the name of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo on December 10, 1963, Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my great privilege to express, to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, the deep…

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English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1963 Some Notes on Modern Greek Tradition A poet who is especially dear to me, the Irishman , Nobel laureate of 1923, on his return from Stockholm wrote an account of his trip entitled «The Bounty of Sweden». I was reminded of it when the honoured me so greatly by…

English Giorgos Seferis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 (Translation) I feel at this moment that I am a living contradiction. The has decided that my efforts in a language famous through the centuries but not widespread in its present form are worthy of this high distinction.…

French Giorgos Seferis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs. En ce moment je sens que je suis une contradiction. a en effet décidé que mon effort dans une langue fameuse à travers bien des siècles, mais peu répandue dans sa forme…

Selected works in Greek Strophe, 1931 I Sterna, 1932 Mythistorema, 1935 Imerologio katastromatos, 1940 Tetradio gymnasmaton, 1940 Dokimes, 1944 Imerologio katastromatos B, 1944 Erotokritos, 1946 Kichli, 1947 Treis meres sta monasteria tis Kappadokias, 1953 Imerologio katastromatos C, 1955 Tria krypha poiemata, 1966 Metagraphes, 1980   Selected translations into English The King of Asine and Other…

French Discours du 11 décembre 1963 Quelques points de la tradition Grecque, moderne Un poète qui m’est particulièrement cher, l’Irlandais , Lauréat Nobel en 1923, à son retour de Stockholm, écrivit un récit de son voyage qu’il intitula « La générosité de la Suède » – « The Bounty of Sweden «. J’y pensais, quand…

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