Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania and grew up in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt in earnest.…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Claude Simon began to be noticed in earnest at the end of the 1950s in connection with the great interest in the so-called “new novel” in France. The new writers were against the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Wole Soyinka, born in Nigeria in 1934, writes in English and is chiefly recognized as a dramatist. His many-sided and vital literary works also include some important collections of poems and novels, an interesting…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, of the , December 10, 1987 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A characteristic feature of the Nobel prizewinner Joseph Brodsky is a magnificent joy of discovery. He sees connections, words them pithily, sees new connections. Not seldom they are contradictory…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On the Nobel Day, 10th December, 1911, received that year’s Nobel Prize in Literature from the hands of King Gustavus V here in Stockholm. On the following day Naguib Mahfouz was born in…

The following account of Butenandt’s work has been made. As recently as twelve years ago, very little was known about the nature of the sex hormones. As regards the oestrogenic, or follicle, hormone it was established that extracts from certain organs, e.g. the ovaries and placenta, bring about the characteristic oestrus phenomena in castrated female…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Andersson of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life requires energy. Our muscles require energy when we move. We need energy to think. Energy input is required for the production of new biological molecules. This year’s three Nobel…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Thelander of , December 10, 2004. Professor Lars Thelander delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Laureates in Chemistry are being rewarded for their discovery of life’s own…

English Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg, Writer, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2007. Writer Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Doris Lessing…

Swedish Presentationstal av författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2007. Författaren Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2007 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Doris Lessing hör både till litteraturhistorien och till den levande litteraturen. Hon har bidragit…