Nobel Prize

Works Die Blendung : Roman . – Wien: Reichner, 1936 Komödie der Eitelkeit : Drama. – München: Weismann, 1950 Fritz Wotruba. – Wien: Rosenbaum, 1955 Masse und Macht. – Hamburg: Claassen, 1960 Welt im Kopf. – Wien: Stiasny, 1962 Hochzeit : Drama. – München: Hanser, 1964 Die Befristeten : Drama. – München: Hanser, 1964 Dramen.…

English So Little I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn’t keep up. My heart grew weary From joy, Despair, Ardor, Hope. The jaws of Leviathan Were closing upon me. Naked, I lay on the shores Of desert islands. The white whale of the…

Czesław Miłosz’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I accept this highest honor on behalf of all men and women for whom I am not so much an individual as a voice, and someone who belongs to them. They should be invoked here, and they…

  Works in Polish Poemat o czasie zastygłym. – Wilno: Kolo Polonistów Sluchaczy Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego, 1933 Trzy zimy. – Wilno: Zwiazek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich, 1936 Wiersze. – Lwów, 1939 Ocalenie. – Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1945 Swiatlo dzienne. – Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1953 Zniewolony umysł. – Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1953 Zdobycie władzy. – Paris: Instytut Literacki,…

Excerpt from The Axion Esti From The Gloria /- – -/      PRAISED BE Myrto standing on the stone parapet facing the sea      like a beautiful eight or a clay pitcher holding a straw hat in her hand      The white and porous middle of day the down of sleep lightly ascending      the faded gold inside the…

Major works in Greek Prosanatolizmi, 1940 Ilios o protos, 1943 Asma heroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tes Albanias, 1945 To axion esti, 1959 Exi kai mia tipsis yia ton ourano, 1960 Thanatos ke anastasis tou Konstandinou Paleologhou, 1971 To fotodhendro ke i dhekati tetarti omorfia, 1971 Maria Nefeli, 1978 Tria poiemata me simea…

Odysseus Elytis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 (in French) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Le voyage d’Odysseus, dont il m’a été donné de porter le nom, semble ne devoir jamais s’achever. Et c’est heureux. Comme l’observait un de nos grands poètes contemporains, l’essentiel n’est pas dans le retour à Ithaque, qui…

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, People ask me often, ‘Why do you write in a dying language?’ And I want to explain it in a few words. Firstly, I like to write ghost stories and nothing fits a ghost better than…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

Works in Yiddish Der sotn in goray. – Warsaw : Yiddish PEN-Klub, 1935 ; New York : Matones, 1943 Di familye moshkat. – 2 vol. – New York : Sklarsky, 1950 Mayn tatns bes-din shtub. – New York : Der Kval, 1956 ; Tel Aviv : Y. L. Perets, 1979 Gimpel tam un andere dertseylungen.…