Nobel Prize

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 12 octobre 2006 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2006 Orhan Pamuk Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2006 est attribué à l’écrivain turc Orhan Pamuk « qui à la recherche de l’âme mélancolique de sa ville natale a trouvé de nouvelles images spirituelles pour le…

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 8. Oktober 2009 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2009 Herta Müller Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2009 wird der deutschen Schriftstellerin Herta Müller verliehen „die mittels Verdichtung der Poesie und Sachlichkeit der Prosa Landschaften der Heimatlosigkeit zeichnet“.

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 8 octobre 2009 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2009 Herta Müller Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2009 est attribué à l’auteur allemand Herta Müller « qui avec la concentration de la poésie et l’objectivé de la prose dessine les paysages de l’abandon ».

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…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 Elias Canetti Born in 1905, in the port of Rustschuk on the lower Danube, Elias Canetti belongs to a Sephardic family whose members, in 1492, were driven out of the town of Canete, situated between Cuenca and Valencia. For several hundred years,…

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 9, 1997 The Nobel Prize for Literature 1997 Dario Fo “who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden” Dario Fo, the dramatist and actor, was born at Lago Maggiore, and is 71. His education included studies…

Swedish Svenska Akademien Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 9 oktober 1997 Nobelpriset i litteratur 1997 Dario Fo “som i medeltida gycklares efterföljd gisslar makten och upprättar de utsattas värdighet” Dramatikern och skådespelaren Dario Fo [få:], född vid Lago Maggiore, är 71 år gammal. Hans utbildning innefattade bland annat studier vid Konstakademien i Milano. Han är gift med…

Announcement by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the Soviet-Russian writer Boris Pasternak for his notable achievement in both contemporary poetry and the field of the great Russian narrative tradition. As is well…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature made his debut in 1949. A selective bibliography from January 1972 on works by, and about, Heinrich Böll lists some forty volumes from his own hand, disregarding reprints and new editions. Last in…