Nobel Prize

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 12 oktober 2000 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2000 Gao Xingjian Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2000 går till den kinesiskspråkige författaren Gao Xingjian “för ett verk av universell giltighet, bitter insikt och språklig sinnrikhet, som öppnat nya vägar för kinesisk romankonst och dramatik”. I Gao Xingjians författarskap återföds litteraturen ur individens kamp…

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 11 octobre 2001 Prix Nobel de littérature 2001 V. S. Naipaul Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2001 est attribué à l’écrivain britannique, né en Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul « pour avoir mêlé narration perceptive et observation incorruptible dans des œuvres qui nous condamnent à voir la présence…

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 11. Oktober 2001 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2001 V. S. Naipaul Den Literaturnobelpreis des Jahres 2001 erhält der in Trinidad geborene, britische Schriftsteller V.S. Naipaul „ für seine Werke, die hellhöriges Erzählen und unbestechliches Beobachten vereinen, und uns zwingen, die Gegenwart verdrängter Geschichte zu sehen”. V.S. Naipaul ist…

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 11 oktober 2001 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 V. S. Naipaul Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 går till den på Trinidad födde brittiske författaren V.S. Naipaul ”för att ha förenat lyhört berättande och omutlig iakttagelse i verk som dömer oss att se den bortträngda historiens närvaro”. V.S. Naipaul är en litterär…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 7 October 2004 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 Elfriede Jelinek The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 is awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 11 October 2001 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 V. S. Naipaul The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2001 is awarded to the British writer, born in Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of…

The following account of the work of Romain Rolland is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, in the district of Nièvre. He studied literature, music, and philosophy, and in 1895 he published two doctoral theses: Les Origines du théâtre lyrique moderne, an erudite and penetrating work which was…

has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1980 to Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Pérez Esquivel, architect and sculptor by profession, has held the chair of architecture in Buenos Aires. In 1974, having decided to devote his life to the struggle for human rights, he took on the day-to-day running of the organisation Servicio Paz y Justicia,…

has chosen to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1984 to Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu’s role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa. The means by which this campaign…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985 to the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. It is the committee’s opinion that this organisation has performed a considerable service to mankind by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes…