Nobel Prize

English Eugenio Montale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 (Translation) Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During a fairly long period of my life, for more than 20 years, freedom of press was somewhat reduced in Italy. But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise selfcensorship. At…

Italian Eugenio Montale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 (in Italian) Maestà, Altezze Reali, Signore, Signori, Durante un periodo abbastanza lungo della mia vita oltre vent’anni la libertà di stampa era piuttosto ridotta in Italia. Ma i poeti non erano considerati pericolosi e ad essi era consigliata l’autocensura. Tutt’al più ai poeti si…

  The Wall To lie in shadow on the lawn By a crumbling wall, pale and withdrawn And spy in the weeds the gliding snake And hear the rustle blackbirds make – To watch in the cracked earth and the grass Battalions of red ants at drill, That break and form ranks, pass and repass…

Works in Swedish De fyra främlingarna. – Stockholm : Tiden, 1924 Timans och rättfärdigheten. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1925 Stad i mörker. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1927 Minnas – 1928 Stad i ljus : en historia från Paris. – Stockholm : Tiden, 1928 Kommentar till ett stjärnfall. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1929 Avsked till Hamlet…

Works in Swedish Spökskepp. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1929 Nomad. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1931 Resor utan mål. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1932 Kap Farväl!. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1933 Natur. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1934 Nässlorna blomma. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1935 Vägen ut. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1936 Svärmare och harkrank. – Stockholm…

Eyvind Johnson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (Translation) On behalf of Harry Martinson and myself I will speak as briefly as possible on the situation in which we now find ourselves. A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a…

Patrick White did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Works in Spanish Crepusculario. – Santiago : Claridad, 1923 Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. – Santiago : Nascimento, 1924 Tentativa del hombre infinito. – Santiago : Nascimento, 1926 Anillos / Pablo Neruda, Tomás Lago. – Santiago : Nascimento, 1926 El habitante y su esperanza. – Santiago : Nascimento, 1926 El hondero entusiasta.…

English Youth Acid and sword blade: the fragrance of plum in the pathways: tooth’s sweetmeat of kisses, power and spilth on the fingers, the yielding erotic of pulps, hayricks and threshing floors, clandestine recesses that tempt through the vastness of houses; bolsters asleep in the past, the bitter green valley, seen from above, from the…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers