Nobel Prize

Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin with a reflection on a personal story, that of a voyage through time. The medal I received from his Majesty this evening was designed by Erik Lindberg in 1902 to represent Nature in the form of the Goddess Isis – or eesis -…

Banquet speech 1970 As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970, the speech was read by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy (Russian, French, Swedish) Banquet speech 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10,…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970, the speech was read by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy Translation into French Sire, Mesdames, Messieurs! J’éspère que mon absence involontaire n’assombrira pas la plénitude de la cérémonie d’aujourd’hui. Dans la série des brefs…

English Mikhail Sholokhov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 (Translation) On this solemn occasion I find it my pleasant duty to extend my thanks once more to the , which has awarded me the Nobel Prize. As I have already had occasion to testify in public, the…

Russian Mikhail Sholokhov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 *

English Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 (Translation) In carrying out the high duties entrusted to it, the Nobel Committee of the has this year awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a signal mark of honour on the international scene, to a writer from a…

French Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs. Cette année, le Comité Nobel de l’Académie Suédoise, en s’acquittant des hautes fonctions qui lui ont été confiées, vient d’attribuer à un écrivain d’un petit pays – comme on dit…

French Saint-John Perse’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. J’ai accepté pour la poésie l’hommage qui lui est ici rendu, et que j’ai hâte de lui restituer. La poésie, sans vous, ne serait pas souvent à l’honneur.…

English Saint-John Perse’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 (Translation) I have accepted in behalf of poetry the honour which has been given to it here and which I am anxious to restore to it. Without you poetry would not often be held in esteem, for there…

Italian Salvatore Quasimodo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Ho sempre pensato al regno di Svezia come a una patria adottiva degli uomini che ricevono il Premio Nobel, cioè un riconoscimento unico e revente nella civiltà contemporanea. Nessun’altra nazione, infatti, è riuscita a proporre o a concretare…