Nobel Prize

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…

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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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.…

Elias Canetti did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

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,…