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by Stig Fredrikson This article was published on 22 February 2006. How I helped Alexandr Solzhenitsyn smuggle his Nobel Lecture from the USSR A controversial Nobel Prize When was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was already an outcast in his native country, the Soviet Union. After the novel “One Day in…

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Is there life after Nobel coronation? by Paul A. Samuelson1970 laureate in economic sciences7 March 2002 The role of luck Young Einsteins and Bohrs may have been inspired to be more creative and harder workers by the dream of winning a Nobel Prize. Since there was no political economy Nobel award before 1968, that could…

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Banquet speech

Luis Leloir’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The honour which I have received exceeds – by far – my most optimistic expectation. The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status. In…

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Banquet speech

English Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (Translation) Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Many Nobel Prize laureates have appeared before you in this hall, but the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation have probably never had as much bother with anyone as…

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Bibliography

Translations into English One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. – New York : Praeger, 1963 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker. – New York, Dutton, 1963 We Never Make Mistakes : Two Short Novels /…

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