Nobel Prize

Interpreter’s note This is a live recording of members of AIIC, the International Association of Conference Interpreters, interpreting simultaneously at the Nobel Centennial Symposia. It is not intended to be a literal or definitive translation of the proceedings.

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewarded three scientists who deciphered the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain’s most important functions. The primary switches for these processes are neurotransmitters: chemical messengers sent from one nerve cell to another across the tiny junctions, or synapses, that separate them. Arvid Carlsson overturned conventional…

Gao Xingjian’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2000 (in French) Vos Majestés, Vos Altesses royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, L’homme qui est devant vous se souvient encore qu’à l’âge de huit ans, sa mère lui avait demandé de tenir un journal. II s’est ainsi consacré à l’écriture jusqu’à l’âge adulte. II se souvient encore qu’à…

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Artist: Bo Larsson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker

English 10 December 2000 The Case for Literature I have no way of knowing whether it was fate that has pushed me onto this dais but as various lucky coincidences have created this opportunity I may as well call it fate. Putting aside discussion of the existence or non-existence…

Works in Chinese Xiandai xiaoshuo jiqiao chutan. – Guangzhou : Huacheng, 1981 You zhi gezi jiao Hongchunr. – Beijing : Beijing Publishing House, 1985 Gao Xingjian xiju ji. – Beijing : Qunzhong, 1985 Dui yizhong xiandai xiju de zhuiqiu. – Beijing : China Theater Publishing House, 1988 Gei wo laoye mai yugan. – Taipei :…

French Le Livre d’un homme seul Chapitre 54 Tu ne vis plus dans l’ombre de personne et tu ne considères plus l’ombre d’autrui comme un ennemi imaginaire, tu es sorti de cette ombre et voilà tout, tu ne vas pas te fabriquer espoirs et illusions, à l’origine, tu es arrivé dans ce monde sans le…

Swedish Gao Xingjian håller sin Nobelföreläsning. Litteraturens existensberättigande Jag vet inte om det är ödet som har fört mig till denna talarstol, men finner inget annat ord för de lyckliga omständigheter som har medverkat därtill. Frågan om Guds existens vill jag lämna därhän. Närhelst jag ställs inför den frågan, vars svar är förborgat för…