Nobel Prize

Excerpt from Prize Stock When I woke up, fecund morning light was slanting through every crack in the slat walls, and it was already hot. My father was gone. So was his gun from the wall. I shook my brother awake and went out to the cobblestone road without a shirt. The road and the…

Novels The Bluest Eye. – New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970 Sula. – New York: Knopf, 1973 Song of Solomon. – New York: Knopf, 1977 Tar Baby. – New York: Knopf, 1981 Beloved. – New York: Knopf, 1987 Jazz. – New York: Knopf, 1992 Paradise. – New York: Knopf, 1998 Love. – New York:…

  Works in Spanish Novels La familia de Pascual Duarte. – Madrid: Aldecoa, 1942 Pabellón de reposo. – Madrid: Afrodisio Aguado, 1943 Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes. – Madrid: La Nave, 1944 La colmena. – Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1951 Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo. – Barcelona: Destino, 1953 La catira. –…

Claude Simon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 (in French) Vos Majestés, Vos Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Je n’ai pas le don de parole, et c’est d’ailleurs là une des raisons pour lesquelles j’écris, quoique encore avec beaucoup de difficultés: mon travail absorbe le plus gros de mon énergie, de sorte que l’âge…

Works in French Le Tricheur. – Paris : Sagittaire, 1945 La Corde raide. – Paris : Minuit, 1947 Gulliver. – Paris : Calmann-Levy, 1952 Le Sacre du printemps. – Paris : Calmann-Levy, 1954 Le Vent: tentative de restitution d’un retable baroque. – Paris : Minuit, 1957 L’herbe. – Paris : Minuit, 1958 La Route des…

William Golding’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, your Excellencies, Fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I came to Sweden characterized as a pessimist, though I am an optimist. Now something – perhaps the wonderful warmth of your hospitality…

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Works Poems. – London: Macmillan, 1934 Lord of the Flies. – London: Faber, 1954 The Inheritors. – London: Faber, 1955 Pincher Martin. – London: Faber, 1956. – Republished as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, 1957 Sometime, Never : Three Tales of Imagination / by William Golding, John Wyndham, and Mervyn Peake. – London: Eyre…

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Elias Canetti did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.