Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature is not only for novelists. Several literature laureates have been recognised for their remarkable poetry, which they have used to share the fight against oppression. Laureates including Bob Dylan and Gabriela Mistral have penned powerful poems that distil important issues, such as women’s rights and colonialism, into visionary verse, as…

Iwas born in 1940 in Lillebonne, a small working-class town twenty-five kilometres from Le Havre. I was an only child and my parents, Alphonse and Blanche Duchesne, ran a small café-grocery in the spinning mill dis­trict. They had lost a little girl of six before I was born. My earliest memo­ries are inseparable from the…

Kenzaburo Oe håller sin Nobelföreläsning 7 december 1994. Swedish* Nobelföreläsning, 7 december 1994 Japan, det kluvna, och jag själv Under det senaste katastrofala världskriget var jag en liten pojke och bodde i en avlägsen skogig dalgång på ön Shikoku i den japanska arkipelagen, tusentals kilometer härifrån. På den tiden var det två böcker som verkligen…

Want to know more about works by the literature laureates? The experts behind the Nobel Prize in Literature let you in on their reading recommendations. Books by László Krasznahorkai. “The author allows simple human warmth to appear side by side with violence and hatred, and the sublime beauty and order that Bach’s music represents rings…

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Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) in Sweden on 10 December 2024.

Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) in Sweden on 10 December 2023.

Octavio Paz receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, on 10 December 1990. Octavio Paz after receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, on 10 December 1990. All 1990 Nobel Prize laureates assembled on stage…