Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Professor Knut Ahnlund, of the December 10, 1989 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Camilo José Cela has written upwards of a hundred books, a veritable library in itself, filled with the most astounding contrasts, popular, crudely humorous tales side by side with some…

  Speech by Professor Sture Allén, Permanent Secretary of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel Prize awarded by the Swedish Academy is, as we know, a literary prize. This year it has been granted to Toni Morrison, making her the ninetieth Nobel Laureate in Literature.…

Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In his novel The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe describes a scene which casts light over his entire œuvre. The narrator, Mitsu, living in a marriage which has not survived the birth of a…

Presentation Speech by Mrs Birgitta Trotzig, Writer, Member of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, How are we to live after the adulteration, demise, and disintegration of the great utopias? – we ask ourselves now, looking toward the year 2000. How are we to live after the…

English Presentation Speech by Writer Per Wästberg, Member of the , Chairman of its Nobel Committee, December 10, 2005. Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Harold Pinter is the renewer…

English Presentation Speech by Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the , Member of its Nobel Committee, 10 December 2008. Professor Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Of what use are characters to a…

Swedish Presentationstal av författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , den 10 december 2005. Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina damer och herrar, Harold Pinter är det engelska dramats förnyare under 1900-talet. “Pinteresque” är ett adjektiv i Oxford Dictionary. Likt Kafka, Proust…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Horace Engdahl, ständige sekreterare, ledamot av Svenska Akademien, 10 december 2008. Professor Horace Engdahl presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Vad skall man med personer till i ett litterärt verk? Roland Barthes hävdade att det mest föråldrade bland…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the on December 10, 1904 One sometimes hears it said that the Nobel Prizes should be awarded to authors still in the prime of life and consequently at the height of their development, in order to shelter them from material difficulties and assure them a wholly…

Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1921 Anatole France was no longer a young man when, in 1881, he captured the attention of the literary public in France and subsequently in the civilized world with his curious novel, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. He had behind him a long…