Nobel Prize

Address by Anders Österling, Member of the This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been granted by the Swedish Academy to the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age. It…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 When Vicente Aleixandre published his first volume of verse in 1928, Ambito, he was already closely associated personally with the greatly gifted Spanish poets who have given this epoch in Spanish literature the name, “The Second Golden Age”. In its conception of…

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release September 30, 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature 1999 Günter Grass “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history” When Günter Grass published “The Tin Drum” in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral…

The following account of the work of Verner von Heidenstam is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic In the constellation of original artists who regenerated Swedish poetry at the end of the last century, Verner von Heidenstam was the most brilliant star. He was the leader of the generation of poets of 1890; he was the…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 12 October 2006 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 Orhan Pamuk The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006 is awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”.…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release8 October 2009 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 Herta Müller The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”.

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 7 oktober 2010 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Nobelpriset i litteraturår 2010 tilldelas den peruanske författaren Mario Vargas Llosa ”för hans kartläggning avmaktens strukturer och knivskarpa bilder av individens motstånd, revolt ochnederlag”.

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 12 oktober 2006 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2006 Orhan Pamuk Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2006 tilldelas den turkiske författaren Orhan Pamuk ”som på spaning efter sin hemstads melankoliska själ har funnit nya sinnebilder för kulturernas strid och sammanflätning”. Svenska Akademien

Turkish Daimi Sekreter Basın bildirisi 12 Ekim 2006 2006 Nobel Yazın Ödülü Orhan Pamuk 2006 Nobel Yazın Ödülü, “Kentinin melankolik ruhunun izlerini sürerken kültürlerin birbirleriyle çatışması ve örülmesi için yeni simgeler bulan”. Orhan Pamuk’a verilmiştir. The Swedish Academy

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 12. Oktober 2006 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2006 wird dem türkischen Schriftsteller Orhan Pamuk verliehen „der auf der Suche nach der melancholischen Seele seiner Heimatstadt neue Sinnbilder für Streit und Verflechtung der Kulturen gefunden hat“. Die Schwedische Akademie