1930
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1930 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. “Blood is a very special liquid”, this was asserted some 140 years ago by Goethe. When writing these words and ascribing them to Mephistopheles he probably had in…
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Sinclair Lewis – Biographical
Biographical
To recount my life for the Nobel Foundation, I would like to present it as possessing some romantic quality, some unique character, like ‘s early adventures in India, or ‘s leadership in the criticism of British arts and economics. But my life, aside from such youthful pranks as sailing on cattleships from America to England…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1930 This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is a native of a part of America which for a long time has had Swedish contacts. He was born at Sauk Centre, a place of about two or three thousand inhabitants in…
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