Nobel Prize

Works in French Serres chaudes : poèmes. – Paris : Léon Vamir, 1889 La princesse Maleine. – Gent : Louis van Melle, 1889 L’intruse ; Les aveugles. – Brussels : P. Lacomblez, 1890 Les sept princesses. – Brussels : P. Lacomblez, 1891 Pelléas et Mélisande. – Brussels : P. Lacomblez, 1892 Alladine et Palomides, Intérieur,…

Works in Swedish Gösta Berlings saga. – Stockholm : Hellberg, 1891. – 2 vol. Osynliga länkar : berättelser. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1894 Antikrists mirakler : roman. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1897 Drottningar i Kungahälla, jämte andra berättelser. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1899 En herrgårdssägen. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1899 Jerusalem : två berättelser. 1,…

Artist: Agi Lindegren Courtesy: Mårbackastiftelsen

English Nobel Lecture, March 27, 1909 Naturalism or Idealism? The history of mankind knows of certain questions that are at once very old and always new: they are very old because any way of life contains an answer to them, and always new because the conditions on which those ways of life depend are constantly…

German Nobel Lecture, March 27, 1909 (short excerpt)   Naturalismus oder Idealismus? Die Erfahrung der Menschheit zeigt gewisse Fragen, die uralt sind und die zugleich sich immer wieder erneuern: uralt sind sie, weil alle Ge­staltung des Lebens eine Antwort über sie in sich trägt, neu werden sie immer wieder, weil die Verhältnisse, an denen jene…

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Selected works Schoolboy Lyrics, 1881 Echoes, 1884 (with Alice Kipling) Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1886 Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888 Soldiers Three, 1888 The Story of the Gadsbys, 1888 In Black and White, 1888 Under the Deodars, 1888 The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, 1888 Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, 1888…

Selected poetry Rime di Giosuè Carducci. – San Miniato : Tipografia Ristori, 1857 Levia gravia. – Pistoia : tipografia Niccolai e Quarteroni, 1868 Poesie di Giosuè Carducci. – Florence : Barbèra, 1871 Nuove poesie di Enotrio Romano. – Imola : Galeati, 1873 Odi barbare di Giosuè Carducci. – Bologna : Zanichelli, 1877 Satana e polemiche…

Principal works in Polish Na marne. – Warsaw: Przeglad Tygodniowy, 1876 Listy z podrózy po Ameryce. – Warsaw: Gebethner & Wolff, 1880 Stary sŧuga; Hania; Szkice wêglem; Janko Muzykant. – Warsaw: Gebethner & Wolff, 1880 Latarnik; Niewola tatarska; Jamioŧ; Na jedna kartê; Bartek Zwyciêzca. – Warsaw: Gebethner & Wolff, 1882 Ogniem i mieczem. – 4…

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1905 (Translation) Nations are represented by their poets and their writers in the open competition for the Nobel Prize. Consequently the award of the Prize by the glorifies not only the author but the people whose son he is, and it bears…