Nobel Prize

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

Works in English Whoroscope : Poem on Time. – Paris : Hours, 1930 Proust. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1931 ; New York : Grove, 1957 More Pricks Than Kicks. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1934 ; New York : Grove, 1970 Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. – Paris : Europa, 1935 Murphy.…

Selected books in Japanese Kanjō sōshoku. – Tokyo : Kinseidō, 1926 Izu no odoriko. – Tokyo : Kinseidō, 1927 (1926?) Boku no hyō honshitsu. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1930 Hana aru shashin. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1930 Asakusa kurenaidan. – Tokyo : Senshinsha, 1930 Kinju. – Tokyo : Noda Shobō, 1935 Yukiguni. – Tokyo :…

Works in Spanish Sociologia guatemalteca : El problema social del indio. – Guatemala City Sánchez y de Guise, 1923 Rayito de estrella. – Paris : Imprimerie Française de l’Edition, 1925 La arquitectura de la vida nueva. – Guatemala City Goubaud, 1928 La barba provisoria. – Havana, 1929 Leyendas de Guatemala. – Madrid : Oriente, 1930…

Hebrew Samuel Agnon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966