Nobel Prize

Telegram from Rabindranath Tagore, read by Mr. Clive, British Chargé d’Affaires, at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1913 I beg to convey to the Swedish Academy my grateful appreciation of the breadth of understanding which has brought the distant near, and has made a stranger a brother. …

Selected works in English Gitanjali (Song Offerings) / with an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. – London, 1913 Glimpses of Bengal Life : Being Short Stories from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore / translated by Rajani Ranjan Sen. – Madras ; Chittagong, 1913 The Gardener. – London : Macmillan, 1913 Sâdhanâ : The Realisation of…

Gerhart Hauptmann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1912 (in German) Als Empfänger des diesjährigen litterarischen Nobelpreises danke ich Ihnen für die warmen und freundlichen Worte, die auch an mich gerichtet worden sind. Sie dürfen überzeugt sein, dass ich und mit mir meine Nation die Ehre völlig verstehen und schätzen, die mir…

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As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1911, the speech was given by Mr. Charles C.M.A. Wauters, Minister of Belgium (Translation) The absence of my illustrious countryman, Mr. Maurice Maeterlinck, whom a serious illness retains at home, has – as Count Mömer has already…

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…