Nobel Prize

Ivan Bunin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1933 (Translation) On November ninth, very far from here in a poor country house in an old Provencal town, I received the telephone call that informed me of the choice of the . I would not be honest if I told you,…

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.

Selected works in Russian Stikhotvoreniia : 1887-1891 gg. – Orel : Orlovskii vestnik, 1891 Na krai sveta” i drugie rasskazy. – St. Petersburg : O. N. Popova, 1897 Pod otkrytym nebom : Stikhotvoreniia. – Moscow : Detskoe chtenie, 1898 Listopad : Stikhotvoreniia. – Moscow : Skorpion, 1901 Novye stikhotvoreniia. – Moscow : O. O. Gerbek,…

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,…

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,…

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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,…

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.…