Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930 The American Fear of Literature Were I to express my feeling of honor and pleasure in having been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, I should be fulsome and perhaps tedious, and I present my gratitude with a plain «Thank you». I wish, in this address, to consider certain trends,…

Sigrid Undset’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1928 (Translation) The preceding speakers have far better expressed our gratitude for the Prizes awarded to us than I could have done, and I subscribe to their words. I write more readily than I speak and I am especially reluctant to talk…

Works in Norwegian Fru Marta Oulie. – Kristiania : Aschehoug, 1907 Den lykkelige alder. – Christiania : Aschehoug, 1908 Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis. – Christiania : Aschehoug, 1909 Ungdom : dikte. – Christiania : Aschehoug, 1910 Jenny. – Christiania : Aschehoug, 1911 Fattige skjebner. – Christiania : Aschehoug, 1912 Vaaren. – Christiania : Aschehoug,…

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Nobel Lecture, December 15, 1923 The Irish Dramatic Movement I have chosen as my theme the Irish Dramatic Movement because when I remember the great honour that you have conferred upon me, I cannot forget many known and unknown persons. Perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written…

William Butler Yeats’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1923 I have been all my working life indebted to the Scandinavian nation. When I was a very young man, I spent several years writing in collaboration with a friend the first interpretation of the philosophy of the English poet Blake.…

Selected works Mosada : a Dramatic Poem. – Dublin : Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886 The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. – London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics. – London : Unwin, 1892 The Celtic Twilight. – London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. –…

Major works in French Alfred de Vigny. – Paris : Bachelin-Deflorenne, 1868 Jocaste et Le chat maigre. – Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 1879 Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l’Institut. – Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 1881 Les désirs de Jean Servien. – Paris : Alphonse Lemerre, 1882 Le livre de mon ami. – Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1885…

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Works in German Prometheus und Epimetheus : ein Gleichnis. – Aarau : Sauerländer, 1880-1881. – 2 vol. Extramundana : kosmische Dichtungen. – Leipzig : Haessel, 1883 Der Parlamentär : Lustspiel in vier Akten. – Basel: Gassmann, 1889 Schmetterlinge. – Hamburg: Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei Aktien Gesellschaft, 1889 Friedli der Kolderi. – Zurich : Müller, 1891 Der…