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Spanish Conferencia Nobel, el 12 de diciembre de 1967 La novela latinoamericana Testimonio de una época Hubiera querido que a este encuentro no se le llamara conferencia sino coloquio, diálogo de dudas y afirmaciones sobre el tema que nos ocupa. Empezaremos analizando los antecedentes de la literatura latinoamericana en general, deteniendo nuestra atención en aquellos…

Spanish Miguel Angel Asturias’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (in Spanish) Majestad, Altezas Reales, Señoras y Señores: Mi voz en el umbral. Mi voz llegada de muy lejos, de mi Guatemala natal. Mi voz en el umbral de esta . Es difícil entrar a formar parte…

English Nobel Lecture, 12th December 1967 (Translation) The Latin American Novel Testimony of an Epoch I would have preferred this meeting to have been called a colloquium instead of lecture – a dialogue of doubts and assertions on the subject that concerns us. Let us start by analysing the antecedents of Latin American literature in…

English Miguel Angel Asturias’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (Translation) My voice on the threshold. My voice coming from afar. On the threshold of the . It is difficult to become a member of a family. And it is easy. The stars know it. The families…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Ragnar Arthur Granit was born in the parish of Helsinge, Finland, on October 30th, 1900, eldest son of the Crown forester Arthur Wilhelm Granit and his wife Albertina Helena Malmberg. The family then moved to the neighbourhood of Helsingfors where his father opened a firm dealing with sylviculture and forest produce and the son became…

George Wald was born in New York City on November 18th, 1906, of immigrant parents, Isaac, who had come from a village near Przemysl, in what was then Austrian Poland, and Ernestine Rosenmann, from a small village near Munich, in Bavaria. After attending public primary and secondary I schools in Brooklyn, he received the degree…

  Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Light, shadows and colours do not exist in the world around us. What we perceive visually and call light is the result of the action of a certain portion of…