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Born: 7th October 1931, Klerksdorp, Transvaal. Parents: Father was a school teacher. Mother relatively uneducated. Married: 2nd July 1955. Wife: Leah Nomalizo Tutu. Children: Trevor Thamsanqa, Theresa Thandeka, Naomi Nontombi, Mpho Andrea. 1945-1950 High School Education – Johannesburg Bantu High School, Western Native Township up to Matric. 1951-1953 Teachers Diploma at Pretoria Bantu Normal College.…

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Czech Pøedná¹ka k udìlení Nobelovy ceny. V prosinci 1984. O patetickém a lyrickém stavu ducha Často se setkávám, především u cizinců, s otázkou, čím je možno vysvětlit velkou oblibu poezie v mé zemi, proč je u nás nejen zájem o básně, ale dokonce potřeba poezie, a tím snad i schopnost ji vnímat, znatelně větší než…

English Nobel Lecture, December 1984 (Translation) On the Pathetic and Lyrical State of Mind I am often asked, particularly by foreigners, how one can explain the great love of poetry in my country: why there exists among us not only an interest in poems but even a need for poetry. Perhaps that means my countrymen…

Autobiography Sometimes when she would talk about herself my mother would say: My life was sad and quiet, I always walked on tip-toe. But if I got a little angry and stamped my foot the cups, which had been my mother’s, would tinkle on the dresser and make me laugh. At the moment of my…

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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher. At the end of the World War II most of the province of Gorizia was overtaken by Yugoslavia and my family fled to…