Nobel Prize

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1JbPvfA7F90 A short glimpse of Ivan Bunin after his arrival in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony held on 10 December 1933. From SF Veckorevy 1933-12-11.

Works in Swedish Vildmarks- och kärleksvisor. – Stockholm : Seligmann, 1895 Fridolins visor och andra dikter. – Stockholm : Wahlström & Widstrand, 1898 Fridolins lustgård och Dalmålningar på rim. – Stockholm : Wahlström & Widstrand, 1901 Valda stycken. – Stockholm : Wahlström & Widstrand, 1904 Flora och Pomona. – Stockholm : Wahlström & Widstrand, 1906…

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,…

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Works in English Hike and the Aeroplane. – New York : Stokes, 1912. – Published under the pseudonym Tom Graham Our Mr. Wrenn : The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man. – New York : Harper, 1914 The Trail of the Hawk : A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life. – New York : Harper,…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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